Mexican Immigrants to U.S. More Likely to Have Psychiatric Disorders than Mexican or U.S. Populations
Friday, September 18, 2009
By Christopher Neefus




The National Institutes of Health (NIH) is paying researchers more than $450,000 in federal tax money to further investigate the relationship between emigration from Mexico and psychiatric disorders.

A previous study of English-speaking Mexican immigrants found that, irrespective of legal status, immigrants with a “pre-existing disorder" were three times more likely to migrate to the U.S. than those who did not.

That 2007 article – “Mental Disorders Among English-Speaking Mexican Immigrants to the U.S. Compared to a National Sample of Mexicansâ€