Examining the gender, ethnicity, and age dimensions of the healthy immigrant effect: Factors in the development of equitable health policy

International Journal for Equity in Health

Volumn 11, Issue 1, 2012, Pages

  Kobayashi, Karen M ^a   Prus, Steven G ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VICTORIA   (Canada)

^b CARLETON UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

ethnicity; gender; health care policy; healthy immigrant effect; later life; mid life

Indexed keywords

DEMOGRAPHIC TREND; ETHNICITY; FEMALE; GENDER; HEALTH CARE; HEALTH POLICY; IMMIGRANT; LIFESTYLE; MALE; POLICY MAKING;

ADULT; AGE; AGED; ARTICLE; CANADA; ETHNICITY; FEMALE; GENDER; HEALTH CARE POLICY; HEALTH SERVICE; HEALTY IMMIGRANT EFFECT; HUMAN; IMMIGRANT; IMMIGRATION; LIFESTYLE; MALE; MINORITY GROUP; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SOCIAL DISCRIMINATION; SOCIOECONOMICS; AGE DISTRIBUTION; BODY MASS; COMPARATIVE STUDY; DEMOGRAPHY; ECONOMICS; ETHNOLOGY; HEALTH CARE DISPARITY; HEALTH SURVEY; LEGAL ASPECT; MIDDLE AGED; MIGRATION; RACE; RESOURCE ALLOCATION; SELF REPORT; SEX RATIO; SOCIAL CLASS; STATISTICAL MODEL; STATISTICS;

CANADA;

AGE DISTRIBUTION; AGED; BODY MASS INDEX; CANADA; CONTINENTAL POPULATION GROUPS; EMIGRANTS AND IMMIGRANTS; FEMALE; HEALTH POLICY; HEALTH STATUS INDICATORS; HEALTH SURVEYS; HEALTHCARE DISPARITIES; HUMANS; LIFE STYLE; LINEAR MODELS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; RESIDENCE CHARACTERISTICS; RESOURCE ALLOCATION; SELF REPORT; SEX DISTRIBUTION; SOCIAL CLASS;

EID: 84856894701     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14759276     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1475-9276-11-8     Document Type: Article

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