Duration of residence was not consistently related to immigrant mortality

Journal of Clinical Epidemiology

Volumn 60, Issue 6, 2007, Pages 585-592

  Bos, Vivian ^a   Kunst, Anton E ^a   Garssen, Joop ^b   Mackenbach, Johan P ^a  

^a ERASMUS MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

^b Statistics   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Acculturation; Duration of residence; Ethnicity; Healthy migrant effect; Immigrant; Mortality

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASE; CAUSE OF DEATH; HUMAN; IMMIGRANT; MORTALITY; NEOPLASM; NETHERLANDS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RESIDENT; SOCIOECONOMICS;

ACCULTURATION; ADULT; AGE DISTRIBUTION; AGED; CAUSE OF DEATH; EMIGRATION AND IMMIGRATION; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MARITAL STATUS; MIDDLE AGED; MOROCCO; MORTALITY; NETHERLANDS; SEX DISTRIBUTION; SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS; SURINAME; TIME FACTORS; TURKEY; URBANIZATION; WEST INDIES;

EID: 34248221708     PISSN: 08954356     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jclinepi.2006.08.010     Document Type: Article

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