Dating the origins of the epidemiologic paradox among Mexican Americans.

This paper describes the history of the epidemiologic paradox the surprising finding that in many circumstances Mexican American infants children and adults have lower mortality than one would expect given their social economic and demographic situation. In particular they have mortality equal to or lower than comparable non-Hispanic whites and lower than that of comparable African Americans.... In this paper we want to describe the history of the epidemiologic paradox and try to reveal when it began. This is a revised version of a paper originally presented at the 1997 Annual Meeting of the Population Association of America. (EXCERPT)

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