Eileen Crimmins is the Edna M. Jones Professor of Gerontology and Director at the USC/UCLA Center on Biodemography and Population Health. This Center is a unique collaboration between demographers, psychologists, epidemiologists, sociologists, physicians and biologists at USC and UCLA. The purpose of the NIA funded Center is to integrate medical, biological, and epidemiological information to model and predict population health trends and explain health differences.
The US Hispanic population is said to have "better than expected" health given its low socioeconomic status. Examination of levels of 10 indicators of clinical risk -- indicating cardiovascular, metabolic and inflammatory risk factors -- suggests no Hispanic paradox. Hispanics do not have better health then "expected" but worse health than the non-Hispanic white population. The poor health of the African-American population is a paradox -- not the good health of the Hispanic population. http://www-rcf.usc.edu/~crimmin/