Settlement trajectories of nearly 25,000 forced migrants in New Zealand: longitudinal insights from administrative data

The Settlement Experiences of New Migrants

National prevalence of gout derived from administrative health data in Aotearoa New Zealand.

OBJECTIVE Previous small studies in Aotearoa New Zealand have indicated a high prevalence of gout. This study sought to determine the prevalence of gout in the entire Aotearoa New Zealand population using national-level health data sets. METHODS We used hospitalization and drug dispensing claims for allopurinol and colchicine for the entire Aotearoa New Zealand population from the Aotearoa Ne...

Do Migrants Get Good Jobs? New Migrant Settlement in Australia

Do Migrants Get Good Jobs? New Migrant Settlement in Australia ∗ This paper investigates the ease with which recent immigrants to Australia from different countries and with different visa categories enter employment at an appropriate level to their prior education and experience in the source country. Unlike most of the earlier research in this field that studied the labour market status of mi...

A New Nonparametric Regression for Longitudinal Data

In many area of medical research, a relation analysis between one response variable and some explanatory variables is desirable. Regression is the most common tool in this situation. If we have some assumptions for such normality for response variable, we could use it. In this paper we propose a nonparametric regression that does not have normality assumption for response variable and we focus ...

Housing and Health of Kiribati Migrants Living in New Zealand

Settlement is a complex process of adjustment for migrants and refugees. Drawing on recent research on the settlement experiences of Kiribati migrants and their families living in New Zealand, this article examines the role of housing as an influencer of the settlement and health of Kiribati migrants. Using qualitative methodology, in-depth interviews were conducted with fourteen Kiribati migra...