Deteriorating health satisfaction among immigrants from Eastern Europe to Germany
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Deteriorating health satisfaction among immigrants from Eastern Europe to Germany
BACKGROUND: Migrants from Eastern Europe constitute more than 5% of Germany's population. Since population health in their countries of origin is poor their health status upon arrival may be worse than that of the native-born German population (hypothesis H1). As a minority, they may be socio-economically disadvantaged (H2), and their health status may deteriorate quickly (H3). METHODS: We comp...
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عنوان ژورنال: International Journal for Equity in Health
سال: 2004
ISSN: 1475-9276
DOI: 10.1186/1475-9276-3-4