Health, life expectancy, and mortality patterns among immigrant populations in the United States

Canadian Journal of Public Health

Volumn 95, Issue 3, 2004, Pages

  Singh, Gopal K ^a   Miller, Barry A ^a  

^a NATIONAL CANCER INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACQUIRED IMMUNE DEFICIENCY SYNDROME; AFRICAN AMERICAN; AGE DISTRIBUTION; ARTICLE; ASIAN; BIOSTATISTICS; BREAST CANCER; CANCER; CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASE; CAUCASIAN; CAUSE OF DEATH; CHINESE; CHRONIC DISEASE; COLORECTAL CANCER; CONTROLLED STUDY; CULTURAL FACTOR; DIABETES MELLITUS; DISABILITY; ESOPHAGUS CANCER; FILIPINO; HEALTH STATUS; HEALTH SURVEY; HISPANIC; HUMAN; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS INFECTION; HYPOTHESIS; IMMIGRANT; INFANT MORTALITY; INTERVIEW; JAPAN; LIFE EXPECTANCY; LIVER CANCER; LIVER CIRRHOSIS; LOGISTIC REGRESSION ANALYSIS; LOW BIRTH WEIGHT; LUNG CANCER; MORBIDITY; MORTALITY; OUTCOMES RESEARCH; POPULATION GROWTH; POPULATION RESEARCH; PROSTATE CANCER; RESPIRATORY TRACT DISEASE; RISK ASSESSMENT; SEX DIFFERENCE; STOMACH CANCER; SUICIDE; UNITED STATES; UTERINE CERVIX CANCER; FACTUAL DATABASE; FEMALE; MALE; MIGRATION; RACE; STATISTICAL MODEL; STATISTICS;

CONTINENTAL POPULATION GROUPS; DATABASES, FACTUAL; EMIGRATION AND IMMIGRATION; FEMALE; HEALTH STATUS; HUMANS; LIFE EXPECTANCY; LOGISTIC MODELS; MALE; MORBIDITY; MORTALITY; POPULATION SURVEILLANCE; UNITED STATES;

EID: 3242807551     PISSN: 00084263     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/bf03403660     Document Type: Article

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