Test of the ‘healthy migrant hypothesis’: A longitudinal analysis of health selectivity of internal migration in Indonesia

Lu, Yao

doi:10.1016/j.socscimed.2008.06.017

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“…Research often portrays migrants as better-off: The 'healthy migrant hypothesis,' for example, suggests that migrants are healthier than their peers at both origin and destination (Jasso et al 2004;Landale, Oropesa, and Gorman 2000;Lu 2008;Palloni and Morenoff 2001), due in part to considerations of challenges involved in moving (Palloni and Morenoff 2001). In contrast, we find that migrants may be a vulnerable group, one that is more likely to experience shocks than those who do not move.…”

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Shocks and migration in Malawi

Anglewicz¹,

Myroniuk²

2018

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Shocks and migration in Malawi

Anglewicz¹,

Myroniuk²

2018

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“…that migrants are selected in a positive way compared to the native population in the country of immigration (24). However, this seems less plausible in Sweden where a huge proportion ofimmigration in recent decades has been refugee immigration.…”

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Country of birth, parental background and self-rated health among adolescents: A population-based study

Lindström

Modén

2014

Scand J Public Health

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The aim of this study was to investigate differences according to country of birth and parental country of birth, in relation to poor self-rated health (SrH), in Swedish adolescents. Methods: The Scania public health survey among children and adolescents, conducted in 2012, is a cross-sectional study including most pupils in grade 9 (15 years old), including in 32 of 33 municipalities. The participation rate was 83% (9,791 of 11,735). We performed logistic regressions to investigate the association between the students' country of birth, parental country of birth and poor SrH. Results: Boys born outside Europe had an odds ratio (Or) 2.1 (1.6-2.8) of poor SrH in the unadjusted model, which was reduced to 0.7 (0.4-1.3) in the multiple model, as compared to boys born in Sweden with both or one parent born in Sweden. Boys born in Europe had an Or 0.4 (0.2-0.9) of poor SrH, after multiple adjustments. girls born in Sweden with both parents born abroad, and girls born outside of Europe had significantly lower Ors of poor SrH in the multiple model. In particular, adjustment for socio-demographic and psychosocial factors reduced the Ors of poor SrH among boys, but did so to a lesser extent among girls. Conclusions: Differences in socio-demographic and psychosocial factors explained the higher odds of poor SRH among boys born outside of Europe. Girls born in Sweden with both parents born abroad, and girls born outside Europe, had significantly lower ORs of poor SRH. Our results indicate that there are gender differences in the factors behind poor self-rated health, according to the country-related background of adolescents in Sweden.

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“…However, these are comparisons of migrants to individuals in the destination rather than in the origin region, thus are considerably less interesting (Lu, 2008).…”

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Heterogeneity in Long Term Health Outcomes of Migrants within Italy

Atella¹,

Deb²

2013

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This article examines the long term physical and mental health effects of internal migration focusing on a relatively unique migration experience from Southern and Northeastern regions of Italy to Northwestern regions and to the region around Rome concentrated over a relatively short period from . OLS regression estimates show significant evidence of a migration effect among early-cohort females on physical health. We find no evidence of migration-health effects for the later cohort, nor for males in the early cohort. We use finite mixture models to further explore the possibility of heterogeneous effects and find that there is a significant and substantial improvement in physical and mental health for a fraction of migrant females in the early cohort but not for others. Analysis of the group for which effects are significant suggest that health effects are concentrated among rural females in the early cohort.

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Test of the ‘healthy migrant hypothesis’: A longitudinal analysis of health selectivity of internal migration in Indonesia

Cited by 188 publications

References 26 publications

Shocks and migration in Malawi

Shocks and migration in Malawi

Country of birth, parental background and self-rated health among adolescents: A population-based study

Heterogeneity in Long Term Health Outcomes of Migrants within Italy

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