Social mobility and self-reported limiting long-term illness among West Indian and South Asian migrants living in England and Wales

Social Science and Medicine

Volumn 56, Issue 2, 2003, Pages 355-361

  Harding, Seeromanie ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GLASGOW   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

England and Wales; Limiting long term illness; Migrants; Mobility; South Asians; West Indians

Indexed keywords

HEALTH STATUS; IMMIGRANT POPULATION; MORBIDITY; SOCIOECONOMIC STATUS;

ARTICLE; BEHAVIOR; CARIBBEAN ISLANDS; HEALTH ECONOMICS; MIGRATION; POPULATION RESEARCH; SELF ESTEEM; SELF REPORT; SOCIAL CLASS; SOCIAL SUPPORT; SOUTH ASIA; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; UNITED KINGDOM;

ASIA, SOUTHEASTERN; CENSUSES; CHRONIC DISEASE; EMIGRATION AND IMMIGRATION; ENGLAND; HUMANS; LOGISTIC MODELS; LONGITUDINAL STUDIES; SOCIAL MOBILITY; VULNERABLE POPULATIONS; WALES; WEST INDIES;

UNITED KINGDOM;

EID: 0037211533     PISSN: 02779536     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0277-9536(02)00041-2     Document Type: Article

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