Social inequalities in mental health and mortality among refugees and other immigrants to Sweden - epidemiological studies of register data

Global Health Action

Volumn 6, Issue 1, 2013, Pages

  Hollander, Anna Clara ^a  

^a KAROLINSKA INSTITUTE   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Immigrants; Mental health; Mortality; Refugees; Register data; Social inequalities

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ARTICLE; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; ETHNOLOGY; FEMALE; HEALTH DISPARITY; HUMAN; IMMIGRANTS; MALE; MENTAL DISEASE; MENTAL HEALTH; MIDDLE AGED; MIGRATION; MORTALITY; PROPORTIONAL HAZARDS MODEL; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; REFUGEE; REGISTER; REGISTER DATA; SOCIAL DETERMINANTS OF HEALTH; SOCIAL INEQUALITIES; SOCIOECONOMICS; STATISTICAL MODEL; STATISTICS; SWEDEN; YOUNG ADULT; MENTAL DISORDERS; MIGRANT; PSYCHOLOGY; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA;

IMMIGRANTS; MENTAL HEALTH; MORTALITY; REFUGEES; REGISTER DATA; SOCIAL INEQUALITIES;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; EMIGRANTS AND IMMIGRANTS; FEMALE; HEALTH STATUS DISPARITIES; HUMANS; LOGISTIC MODELS; MALE; MENTAL DISORDERS; MENTAL HEALTH; MIDDLE AGED; MORTALITY; PROPORTIONAL HAZARDS MODELS; REFUGEES; REGISTRIES; SOCIAL DETERMINANTS OF HEALTH; SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS; SWEDEN; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84886294738     PISSN: None     EISSN: 16549880     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3402/gha.v6i0.21059     Document Type: Review

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