The "Americanisation" of migrants: Evidence for the contribution of ethnicity, social deprivation, lifestyle and life-course processes to the mid-20th century Coronary Heart Disease epidemic in the US

Social Science and Medicine

Volumn 63, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 465-484

  Kelleher, C C ^a   Lynch, J W ^b   Daly, L ^a   Harper, S ^b   Fitz simon, N ^a   Bimpeh, Y ^a   Daly, E ^a   Ulmer, H ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE DUBLIN   (Ireland)

^b MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^c INNSBRUCK MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (Austria)

Author keywords

Cardiovascular disease; Ethnicity; Life course; Migration; Social variation; US

Indexed keywords

DISEASE; EPIDEMIC; HEALTH IMPACT; MORTALITY;

ARTICLE; CITIZENSHIP; DATA BASE; EPIDEMIC; ETHNOLOGY; FEMALE; HUMAN; ISCHEMIC HEART DISEASE; LIFESTYLE; MALE; MIGRATION; SOCIAL ISOLATION;

CENSUSES; CORONARY DISEASE; DISEASE OUTBREAKS; EMIGRATION AND IMMIGRATION; EUROPEAN CONTINENTAL ANCESTRY GROUP; FEMALE; HISTORY, 20TH CENTURY; HUMANS; LIFE STYLE; MALE; SEX FACTORS; SOCIAL ISOLATION; UNITED STATES;

EURASIA; EUROPE; NORTH AMERICA; NORTHERN EUROPE; UNITED STATES;

EID: 33646839233     PISSN: 02779536     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.socscimed.2005.12.017     Document Type: Article

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