Heterogeneous patterns of health status among immigrants in spain

Health and Place

Volumn 18, Issue 6, 2012, Pages 1282-1291

  Villarroel, Nazmy ^a,b   Artazcoz, Lucía ^a,b,c,d  

^a AGÈNCIA DE SALUT PÚBLICA DE BARCELONA   (Spain)

^b CIBER EPIDEMIOLOGÍA Y SALUD PÚBLICA CIBERESP   (Spain)

^c UNIVERSITAT POMPEU FABRA   (Spain)

^d BIOMEDICAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE SANT PAU IIB SANT PAU   (Spain)

Author keywords

Europe; Gender; Immigrants; Socioeconomic factors; Spain

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARGENTINA; ARTICLE; BOLIVIA; BOLIVIAN; COLOMBIA; CONTROLLED STUDY; ECUADOR; ETHNICITY; FEMALE; FOREIGNER; GENDER; HEALTH STATUS; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; IMMIGRANT; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MENTAL HEALTH; MOROCCO; PERU; PUBLIC HEALTH; ROMANIA; SOCIOECONOMICS; SPAIN; SPANIARD; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; ETHNOLOGY; HEALTH SURVEY; MIDDLE AGED; MIGRATION; SEX DIFFERENCE; STATISTICS; YOUNG ADULT;

INDICATOR INDICATOR;

ADULT; ARGENTINA; BOLIVIA; COLOMBIA; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; ECUADOR; EMIGRANTS AND IMMIGRANTS; FEMALE; HEALTH STATUS; HEALTH SURVEYS; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MOROCCO; PERU; ROMANIA; SEX FACTORS; SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS; SPAIN; YOUNG ADULT;

MLCS; MLOWN;

EID: 84890126967     PISSN: 13538292     EISSN: 18732054     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.healthplace.2012.09.009     Document Type: Article

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