Essays about: "Healthy Immigrant Effect"
Found 3 essays containing the words Healthy Immigrant Effect.
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1. Retirement and the Healthy Immigrant Effect Among Older People : A comparison of health outcomes using SHARE data
University essay from Stockholms universitet/Sociologiska institutionenAbstract : While the healthy immigrant effect (HIE) has been seen throughout the western world in the adult population; research on the older population shows an inverse relationship between self-reported health and immigration status – i.e., in many instances, a health disadvantage for older immigrants. READ MORE
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2. Disability risk disparity among the immigrant population in the United States, 2009-2018
University essay from Lunds universitet/Ekonomisk-historiska institutionenAbstract : This thesis attempts to examine the relationship between immigrant generation status and disability risk in the US. The difference in disability risk, resulting from a series of chronic health conditions, is one of the major indicators of health disparities among immigrants which contribute to persistent ethnic/racial stratification of health. READ MORE
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3. The Healthy Immigrant Effect (HIE) in the UK.
University essay from Lunds universitet/Ekonomisk-historiska institutionenAbstract : The so-called “Healthy Immigrant Effect” (HIE) is based on two complementary hypotheses: i) immigrants who recently arrived to a new country present a better health than the native-born population with similar socio-demographic characteristics; ii) immigrant´s health deteriorates faster than that of the native-born and converges towards native-born levels with the years lived in the host country. This phenomenon has been widely studied for working immigrants in countries who have traditionally received large flows of labour migration as Australia, Canada and the US. READ MORE
