Dr. Albert Palloni
Center for Demography & Ecology
University
of Wisconsin
Phone 608.262.3131
palloni@ssc.wiso.edu

"Demographic and epidemiological approaches to the Hispanic paradox."
- A.Palloni & J. D. Morenoff

Using the example of Hispanic paradox pertaining to infant mortality and birth weight, Palloni and Morenoff discussed problems common to both the epidemiological risk-factor approach and the demographic variable-based approach to studying population health.