Multimorbidity among registered immigrants in Norway: The role of reason for migration and length of stay

Tropical Medicine and International Health

Volumn 20, Issue 12, 2015, Pages 1805-1814

  Diaz, Esperanza ^a,b   Kumar, Bernadette N ^b,c   Gimeno Feliu, Luis Andrés ^d,e,f   Calderón Larrañaga, Amaia ^d,g   Poblador Pou, Beatriz ^d,g   Prados Torres, Alexandra ^d,e,g  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BERGEN   (Norway)

^b Norwegian Center for Minority Health Research   (Norway)

^c UNIVERSITY OF OSLO   (Norway)

^d HOSPITAL UNIVERSITARIO MIGUEL SERVET   (Spain)

^e UNIVERSITY OF ZARAGOZA   (Spain)

^f Aragon Health Service   (Spain)

^g INSTITUTO DE SALUD CARLOS III   (Spain)

Author keywords

Chronic disease; Emigrants and immigrants; Immigrant status; Multimorbidity; Population register; Primary health care

Indexed keywords

DATABASE; DISEASE PREVALENCE; EMIGRATION; EQUITY; HEALTH CARE; HEALTH STATUS; IMMIGRANT POPULATION; INTERNATIONAL MIGRATION; LABOR MIGRATION; MORBIDITY; REGRESSION ANALYSIS;

ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; CHI SQUARE TEST; CONTROLLED STUDY; DATA BASE; EDUCATION; FAMILY; FAMILY STUDY; FEMALE; HEALTH ECONOMICS; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; IMMIGRANT; LENGTH OF STAY; LOGISTIC REGRESSION ANALYSIS; MODEL; NORWAY; PREVALENCE; REFUGEE; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; COMORBIDITY; ETHNIC GROUP; HEALTH STATUS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MIGRANT; MIGRATION; MOTIVATION; ODDS RATIO; PRIMARY HEALTH CARE; REGISTER; SEX DIFFERENCE; SOCIOECONOMICS; STATISTICAL MODEL; YOUNG ADULT;

NORWAY;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; COMORBIDITY; EMIGRANTS AND IMMIGRANTS; EMIGRATION AND IMMIGRATION; ETHNIC GROUPS; FEMALE; HEALTH STATUS; HUMANS; LOGISTIC MODELS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MOTIVATION; NORWAY; ODDS RATIO; PRIMARY HEALTH CARE; REFUGEES; REGISTRIES; SEX FACTORS; SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS; TRANSIENTS AND MIGRANTS; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84954459615     PISSN: 13602276     EISSN: 13653156     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/tmi.12615     Document Type: Article

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