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Illegal immigration slows, economy may be cause

Tara Murray — Tue, 07 Oct 2008 12:27:36 +0000

A new report from the Pew Hispanic Center says that the inflow of illegal immigration to the US has slowed, dropping below the rate of legal immigration. While the report does not try to identify reasons for the decline, some researchers, including William Frey of the Brookings Institution, point to the country’s economic downturn (Associated Press).

Citation: Passel, J. & Cohn, D. (2008). Trends in Unauthorized Immigration: Undocumented Inflow Now Trails Legal Inflow. Washington, DC: Pew Hispanic Center.

Call for Papers: Special Demography Issue of Marriage and Family Review

Ruth Kozar — Thu, 11 Sep 2008 14:37:43 +0000

The PRI Library has received announcement for a call for papers for a special demography issue of Marriage and Family Review.

Call for Nominations: Global health ambassadors

Tara Murray — Thu, 11 Sep 2008 12:35:41 +0000

The Paul G. Rogers Society for Global Health Research is accepting nominations for global health ambassadors. The ambassadors are US leaders in global health research who are committed to advocacy for global health research.

Nominations must be submitted by September 15, 2008. For details, see the call for nominations.

State- and city-level data on birth outcomes from KIDS COUNT

Tara Murray — Wed, 13 Aug 2008 20:20:51 +0000

State- and city-level data on birth outcomes is now available from 2008 The Right Start for America’s Newborns in the KIDS COUNT Data Center. The entire data set is available for download as a delimited file.

Hispanics and Health Care in the United States

Tara Murray — Wed, 13 Aug 2008 12:53:09 +0000

Results from the 2007 Latino Health Survey conducted by the Pew Hispanic Center are available in a new report, Hispanics and Health Care in the United States: Access, Information and Knowledge.

Poverty more concentrated since 2000

Tara Murray — Wed, 13 Aug 2008 12:35:05 +0000

Reversing a trend from the 1990s, poverty has become more concentrated from 2000 to 2005, according to a new report from the Brookings Institution (Christian Science Monitor).

For their study, authors Elizabeth Kneebone and Alan Berube used Census data and Earned Income Tax Credit data from the IRS. They found that the number of poor people living in high poverty communities increased for the majority of metropolitan areas studied.

Citation: Kneebone, E. & Berube, A. (2008). Reversal of Fortune: A New Look at Concentrated Poverty in the 2000s. Washington, DC: Brookings Institution.

NIH Centers for Population Health and Health Disparities

Tara Murray — Tue, 12 Aug 2008 18:41:27 +0000

The September issue of the American Journal of Public Health includes an article on the NIH Centers for Population Health and Health Disparities, “the first federal initiative to support transdisciplinary multilevelresearch on the determinants of health disparities.”

Citation: Warnecke, R. B., Oh, A., Breen, N., Gehlert, S., Paskett, E., Tucker, K. L., et al. (2008). Approaching Health Disparities From a Population Perspective: The National Institutes of Health Centers for Population Health and Health Disparities. American Journal of Public Health, 98(9), 1608-1615. (Abstract available online; Penn State users check The CAT for print or online full text)

Obesity not a sure indicator of heart problems

Tara Murray — Tue, 12 Aug 2008 15:34:11 +0000

Many normal-weight individuals have risk factors normally associated with obesity, and many overweight people do not have these risk factors, showing that we are still a long way from understanding the relationship between weight and health, according to analysis of NHANES data. (Baltimore Sun)

Citation: Wildman, R. P., Muntner, P., Reynolds, K., McGinn, A. P., Rajpathak, S., Wylie-Rosett, J., et al. (2008). The Obese Without Cardiometabolic Risk Factor Clustering and the Normal Weight With Cardiometabolic Risk Factor Clustering: Prevalence and Correlates of 2 Phenotypes Among the US Population (NHANES 1999-2004). Archives of Internal Medicine, 168(15), 1617-1624. (Available free online)

US homeless population declined, says HUD

Tara Murray — Wed, 30 Jul 2008 14:37:33 +0000

US housing officials credit a “housing first” policy for a decline in the nation’s homeless population from 2005-2007 (New York Times).

The US Department of Housing and Urban Development report to Congress (PDF) is available online.

Girls’ math performance equal to boys’

Tara Murray — Fri, 25 Jul 2008 13:01:22 +0000

A new study shows that girls today do just as well as boys on math tests, defying lingering stereotypes (CNN.com).

Citation: Hyde, J. S., Lindberg, S. M., Linn, M. C., Ellis, A. B., & Williams, C. C. (2008). Diversity: Gender Similarities Characterize Math Performance. Science, 321(5888), 494-495.