Determinants of the variations in self-reported health status among recent and more established immigrants in Canada

Social Science and Medicine

Volumn 115, Issue , 2014, Pages 103-110

  Subedi, Rajendra Prasad ^a   Rosenberg, Mark Warren ^a  

^a QUEEN S UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Canada; Health; Healthy immigrant effect; Immigrants; Lifestyle; Social determinants of health

Indexed keywords

BODY MASS; HEALTH CARE; HEALTH SERVICES; HEALTH STATUS; HEALTH SURVEY; HOUSEHOLD INCOME; IMMIGRANT; LIFESTYLE; SMOKING; SOCIOECONOMIC CONDITIONS;

ADULT; AGE; AGED; ARTICLE; BODY MASS; CANADA; CONSULTATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; ETHNICITY; FEMALE; GENDER; GENERAL PRACTITIONER; HEALTH DISPARITY; HEALTH SERVICE; HEALTH STATUS; HEALTH SURVEY; HUMAN; IMMIGRANT; JOB STRESS; LIFESTYLE; MALE; SELF REPORT; SMOKING HABIT; SOCIAL DETERMINANTS OF HEALTH; VERY ELDERLY; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; EMPLOYMENT; HEALTH CARE DELIVERY; MENTAL STRESS; MIGRANT; MIGRATION; PSYCHOLOGY; STATISTICAL MODEL; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA; TIME;

CANADA;

CANADA; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; EMIGRANTS AND IMMIGRANTS; EMIGRATION AND IMMIGRATION; EMPLOYMENT; FEMALE; HEALTH SERVICES ACCESSIBILITY; HEALTH STATUS DISPARITIES; HEALTH SURVEYS; HUMANS; LIFE STYLE; LOGISTIC MODELS; MALE; SOCIAL DETERMINANTS OF HEALTH; STRESS, PSYCHOLOGICAL; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 84903906389     PISSN: 02779536     EISSN: 18735347     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.socscimed.2014.06.021     Document Type: Article

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