Association between integration policies and immigrants' mortality: An explorative study across three european countries

PLoS ONE

Volumn 10, Issue 6, 2015, Pages

  Ikram, Umar Z ^a   Malmusi, Davide ^b,c   Juel, Knud ^d   Rey, Grégoire ^e   Kunst, Anton E ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

^b AGÈNCIA DE SALUT PÚBLICA DE BARCELONA   (Spain)

^c CIBER EPIDEMIOLOGÍA Y SALUD PÚBLICA CIBERESP   (Spain)

^d UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN DENMARK   (Denmark)

^e INSERM   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASE; CARDIOVASCULAR MORTALITY; CAUSE OF DEATH; COMPARATIVE STUDY; DENMARK; FEMALE; FRANCE; GROUPS BY AGE; HOMICIDE; HUMAN; IMMIGRANT; INJURY; INTEGRATION POLICY; MALE; MOROCCAN; MORTALITY; NEOPLASM; NETHERLANDS; POLICY; RESPIRATORY TRACT DISEASE; SEX DIFFERENCE; SUICIDE; TURK (PEOPLE); COMMUNITY INTEGRATION; CULTURAL FACTOR; ETHNOLOGY; EUROPE; MIDDLE AGED; MIGRANT; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA;

ACCULTURATION; ADULT; AGED; COMMUNITY INTEGRATION; EMIGRANTS AND IMMIGRANTS; EUROPE; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MORTALITY;

EID: 84935431740     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0129916     Document Type: Article

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