Project 2: Environmental Risk, Coping, and Hispanic Health
Principal Investigator - Goodwin, James, M.D.
Environmental Risk, Coping, and Hispanic Health (Healthy City Assessment Project - Texas City [HCAP-TC]).
Project overview:
Project 2, titled: The Environmental Risk, Coping, and Mexican American Health project, also known as the Health (Healthy City Assessment Project - Texas City [HCAP-TC]) was designed to exploit our prior research showing that Hispanics living in areas with greater Hispanic concentrations have health outcomes better than Hispanics who are geographically integrated with non-Hispanic whites and others.
The Texas City Study intended to add to the explicit understanding of stress and its moderators in the social epidemiology of Hispanics. Underlying these global goals was an attempt to link social, individual, and physiological level data to better understand their interrelationships in the health of Hispanics. Using an integrated framework, the project combines an analysis of acute and chronic stressors (e.g., daily hassles, life events, perception of risk associated with a technological hazard, neighborhood physical incivilities) and acculturation/assimilation, coping behaviors and beliefs, self-reported and physiological stress, and health outcomes. (See Methodology Figure 1)
