The impact of migration in all-cause mortality: The Turin Longitudinal Study, 1971-2005

Social Science and Medicine

Volumn 74, Issue 6, 2012, Pages 897-906

  Rasulo, Domenica ^a   Spadea, Teresa ^a   Onorati, Roberta ^a   Costa, Giuseppe ^b  

^a ASL TO3 Piedmont Region   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TURIN   (Italy)

Author keywords

Age at arrival; Birth cohorts; Internal migrants; Italy; Length of stay; Migration; Mortality risk; Turin

Indexed keywords

AGE; COHORT ANALYSIS; IMMIGRANT; INTERNAL MIGRATION; MORTALITY; RISK ASSESSMENT; SURVIVAL;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGE; AGED; ARTICLE; BIOSTATISTICS; BIRTHPLACE; COHORT ANALYSIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; DYING; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; GEOGRAPHY; HEALTH STATUS; HIGH RISK POPULATION; HUMAN; IMMIGRANT; IMMIGRATION; ITALY; LENGTH OF STAY; LONGITUDINAL STUDY; MALE; MORTALITY; POPULATION RESEARCH; PUBLIC HEALTH; RISK ASSESSMENT; SOCIOECONOMICS; STATISTICAL MODEL;

ADULT; AGE FACTORS; AGED; EMIGRANTS AND IMMIGRANTS; FEMALE; HEALTH STATUS DISPARITIES; HUMANS; ITALY; KAPLAN-MEIER ESTIMATE; LONGITUDINAL STUDIES; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MORTALITY; SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS; TIME FACTORS;

ITALY; PIEDMONT [ITALY]; TORINO [PIEDMONT]; TURIN;

EID: 84857448035     PISSN: 02779536     EISSN: 18735347     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.socscimed.2011.10.045     Document Type: Article

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