Health care usage among immigrants and native-born elderly populations in eleven European countries: results from SHARE
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Mental Health of Aging Immigrants and Native-Born Men Across 11 European Countries
Results. Immigrants face 1.60 increased odds of depression despite a physical health advantage, evidenced by 0.74 lower odds of chronic illness. SES and availability of social support were predictive, though acculturation measures were not. Decomposition analysis revealed that only approximately 20% of the variation in depression rates between immigrants and native-born peers were explained by ...
متن کاملMental health of aging immigrants and native-born men across 11 European countries.
OBJECTIVES Though working-age immigrants exhibit lower mortality compared with those domestic-born immigrants, consequences of immigration for mental health remain unclear. We examine whether older immigrants exhibit a mental advantage and whether factors believed to underlie immigrant vulnerability explain disparities. METHOD The sample includes 12,247 noninstitutionalized men more than 50 y...
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the Prairie Centre of Excellence for Research on Immigration and Integration, and in part by a grant from the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council. Data used in this paper are based on the 1991 Census, Public Use Microdata File on Individuals supplied by Statistics Canada and made available to the author through the University Library of the University of Saskatchewan as a member of ...
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عنوان ژورنال: The European Journal of Health Economics
سال: 2011
ISSN: 1618-7598,1618-7601
DOI: 10.1007/s10198-011-0327-x