The lagging achievement of many U.S. Latinos is staggering. Latinos have the highest high school dropout rate. Further, secondand third-generation Latinos in the United States perform less well than do recent immigrants. These statistics belie the hopes and aspirations for upward mobility, a better life, and the deep value for education that are tightly held by many Latino immigrant families. U...

Industrialized dairy production in the U.S. relies on an immigrant, primarily Latino/a, workforce to meet greater production demands. Given the high rates of injuries and illnesses on U.S. dairies, there is pressing need to develop culturally appropriate training to promote safe practices among immigrant, Latino/a dairy workers. To date, there have been few published research articles or guidel...

neighborhood attachment is closely related to concrete and abstract conceptions that set the scene for a variety of interactions among the residents. it is on the basis of social-physical location which happens over time. neighborhood attachment also enhances the possibility of residents’ social participation in urban neighborhoods and has a bilateral relationship with residents’ satisfaction. ...

BACKGROUND Obesity is a major problem in the United States, particularly among socio-economically disadvantaged Latino and Black children. Effective interventions that can be disseminated to large numbers of at-risk children and their families are needed. The goals of the Early Childhood Obesity Prevention Program (ECHO) are to examine the 12-month efficacy of a primary obesity prevention progr...

This research extends the homicide literature by using latent class analysis methods to examine neighborhood structural and demographic characteristics of different categories homicides in Hollenbeck Community Policing Area Los Angeles Police Department (LAPD). The area itself is a 15 square-mile region with approximately 187,000 residents, majority whom are Latino (84 percent). also has protra...

STUDY OBJECTIVE To identify sexual health behavior interventions targeting U.S. Latino adolescents. DESIGN A systematic literature review. SETTING Peer-reviewed articles published between 1993 and 2011, conducted in any type of setting. PARTICIPANTS Male and female Latino adolescents ages 11-21 years. INTERVENTIONS Interventions promoting sexual abstinence, pregnancy prevention, sexuall...

BACKGROUND The American Cancer Society, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, National Cancer Institute, and North American Association of Central Cancer Registries collaborate annually to provide U.S. cancer information, this year featuring the first comprehensive compilation of cancer information for U.S. Latinos. METHODS Cancer incidence was obtained from 90% of the Hispanic/Latino a...

This study investigated 86 Latino parents' intentions to communicate about sexuality issues with their children. They reported on their history of sexuality education, when they would first discuss sexuality-related topics, and their perceived effectiveness of each topic. Compared with a sample of Caucasian parents, Latino parents intended to discuss sexual abuse/molestation at an earlier age, ...

This article reports findings from a multilevel longitudinal study that brings together key individual, family, and neighborhood factors to assess the hypothesis that differential social contexts account for the puzzle of racial and ethnic gaps in violence. From 1995 to 2002 we collected three panels of data on a diverse sample of subjects (N= 2,974, ages 8-25) living in 180 Chicago neighborhoo...

OBJECTIVES The major objectives of this study were to examine the prevalence of mental disorders and the use of mental health services among Latino adolescents who were receiving services in at least one of five public sectors of care in San Diego County. METHODS Survey data were gathered for a random sample of adolescents aged 12 to 18 years (N=1,164) who were receiving public-sector care. M...