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Migration, Health and Survival
International Perspectives
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Publications in this field have, in general, been based predominantly on the experiences of individual national settings. Migration, Health and Survival offers a comparative approach, bringing together leading international scholars to provide original works from the United States, Canada, Australia, France, Germany, England and Wales, Norway, Belgium, and Italy.

Variations in physical and mental health and mortality among migrants in relation to their host populations are examined and analyzed in detail, with specific discussion of: the immigrant health and mortality advantage; the healthy migrant hypothesis; migrants as vulnerable populations; the long-term effects of acculturation on health; fast epidemiological transition among migrants; and the intergenerational transmission of mortality risk. The contributions in this volume enhance the reader's understanding of immigrant health and mortality conditions across these leading countries of immigration in the western world.

This is an important reference for researchers of migrant studies as well as teachers of graduate level courses in population studies and allied disciplines. Practitioners involved in the provision of health care to immigrants and refugees will further benefit from the insightful analyses.

Contributors include: O. Anikeeva, P. Bi, N. Biddle, P. Brzoska, G. Caselli, P. Deboosere, M. Guillot, M. Khlat, L. Liu, S. Loi, D. Manuel, K.B. Newbold, E. Ng, B. Oppedal, D. Ponka, O. Razum, C. Sanmartin, G.K. Singh, S. Strozza, F. Trovato, J. Tu, H. Vandenheede, M. Wallace, S.G. Weldeegzie, L. Wilkinson


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Contents:

Preface
1. Introduction: migration, health and survival - international perspectives
Frank Trovato

2. Understanding the healthy immigrant effect: evidence from Canada
K. Bruce Newbold

3. All-cause and circulatory disease-related hospitalization, by immigrant generation status: evidence from a Canadian census based linked cohort with a focus on South Asian, Chinese and UK populations
Edward Ng, Claudia Sanmartin, Jack V. Tu and Doug G. Manuel

4. Migrant health in Australia: existing literature and new results
Nicholas Biddle and Samuel G. Weldeegzie

5. Mental health among immigrant background youth in Norway
Brit Oppedal

6. Mental health of immigrants and refugees in Canada
Lori Wilkinson and David Ponka

7. The immigrant mortality advantage in Canada
Frank Trovato

8. Mortality trends, patterns, and differentials among immigrants in the United States
Gopal K. Singh and Lihua Liu

9. Cancer mortality among immigrants in Australia
Olga Anikeeva and Peng Bi

10. Mortality among migrants and their descendants living in England and Wales
Matthew Wallace

11. Health and mortality patterns among migrants in France
Myriam Khlat and Michel Guillot

12. Mortality and morbidity patterns among immigrants residing in Germany
Patrick Brzoska and Oliver Razum

13. Migration, health and mortality in Italy: an unfinished story
Graziella Caselli, Silvia Loi and Salvatore Strozza

14. Mortality and health of immigrants and their children in Belgium in the 2000s
Patrick Deboosere and Hadewijch Vandenheede

15. Reflections toward an organizing framework for the study of immigrant mortality
Frank Trovato

Index


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ISBN-13: 9781785365966
Publisher: Edward Elgar Publishing Ltd
Publication date: November, 2017
Pages: 304
Weight: 652g
Availability: Available
Subcategories: Public Health

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