Healthy migrants but unhealthy offspring? A retrospective cohort study among Italians in Switzerland

BMC Public Health

Volumn 12, Issue 1, 2012, Pages

  Tarnutzer, Silvan ^a   Bopp, Matthias ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ZURICH   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CULTURAL FACTOR; ETHNOLOGY; FEMALE; HEALTH STATUS; HUMAN; ITALY; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MIGRATION; MORTALITY; PROPORTIONAL HAZARDS MODEL; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; RISK ASSESSMENT; STATISTICS; SWITZERLAND;

ACCULTURATION; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; FEMALE; HEALTH STATUS; HUMANS; ITALY; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MORTALITY; PROPORTIONAL HAZARDS MODELS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RISK ASSESSMENT; SWITZERLAND; TRANSIENTS AND MIGRANTS;

MLCS; MLOWN;

EID: 84871392501     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14712458     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1471-2458-12-1104     Document Type: Article

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