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Project 2: Environmental Risk, Coping, and Hispanic Health

Specific Aims

The specific aims of the HCAP-TC are to:

  1. Examine the variation and covariates of numerous stressors in a Mexican American population, across social groups, neighborhoods, and individuals;
  2. Evaluate mechanisms that extend across levels of analysis to better understand how social, geographical, and individual variables work in concert to affect the stress and coping process in a Mexican American population;
  3. Use longitudinal data collection and analysis to assess how stressors, coping, stress, and their moderators affect the health outcomes of Mexican Americans through time;
  4. Construct a predictive model of stressors, coping, stress, and health that can be used in future studies and applied to this and other populations for community participatory health improvement.