Despite Latino adults’ health advantages in the United States, they tend to have worse self-rated health (SRH) than non-Hispanic Whites. This finding extends to Latina mothers’ ratings of their children’s health, but it is unknown whether Latino children also have worse SRH than Whites. We investigate this question, as well as variations in mother-child agreement in rating the child’s health by ethnicity, and the role of mothers’ acculturation in these associations. Using survey data from the Fragile Families and Child Wellbeing Study, we find that Mexican-origin children’s SRH is worse than non-Hispanic White children’s SRH, but Mexican-origin children’s SRH is also often better than their mothers’ ratings of the children’s health. Maternal acculturation explains some of the relationship between Mexican-origin and child SRH, with particular facets of the acculturation experience operating in different directions. We discuss the implications of these findings for understandings of racial/ethnic disparities in health, particularly among children.

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母亲和儿童的健康自我评价：不同种族内外的比较研究

尽管在美国拉丁裔成年人享有健康优势，但他们的自评健康（SRH）往往比非西班牙裔白人差。这一发现扩展到了拉美裔母亲对孩子健康的评价，但未知拉美裔孩子的SRH是否也比白人差。我们调查了这个问题，以及按种族对孩子的健康状况进行评估的母子协议的差异，以及母亲的适应在这些协会中的作用。使用来自脆弱家庭和儿童健康研究的调查数据，我们发现墨西哥裔儿童的SRH较非西班牙裔白人儿童的SRH差，但墨西哥裔儿童的SRH往往也比其母亲对孩子健康的评级好。产妇的适应性解释了墨西哥血统和儿童性生殖器生殖器之间的某些关系，具有不同适应文化经历的特定方面在不同方向上运作。我们讨论了这些发现对理解健康尤其是儿童中种族/民族差异的意义。