Answer: Mexican-Americans born in the United States are at greater risk of mental disorder than people who have recently immigrated from Mexico to the United States. The cross-national framework conceptualized by Acevedo-Garcia (and others) connects different frameworks to understand immigrant health, including the life course approach and the push-pull factor theories and transnational theory, reflecting the interdisciplinary nature of studying immigrant health.
Explanation:
National studies of the two largest immigrant groups in the U.S., Latinos and Asians, have found lower rates of psychiatric disorders among foreign-born respondents compared with U.S. born. The general pattern of findings is that those who migrated during childhood have rates of psychiatric disorders similar to those born in the United States respondents of the same ethnicity, while those who migrated during adolescence or later have lower rates. The longer immigrants live in the U.S., the more their risk for psychiatric disorders approaches.
