Health of Immigrants in European countries

Aïda Solé-Auró () and Eileen M.Crimmins ()
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Aïda Solé-Auró: Faculty of Economics, University of Barcelona
Eileen M.Crimmins: Andrus Gerontology Center, University of Southern California.
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No 200809, IREA Working Papers from University of Barcelona, Research Institute of Applied Economics

Abstract: The health of older immigrants can have important consequences for needed social support and demands placed on health systems. This paper examines health differences between immigrants and the nativeborn populations aged 50 years and older in 11 European countries. We examine differences in functional ability, disability, disease presence and behavioral risk factors, for immigrants and non-immigrants using data from the Survey of Health, Aging and Retirement in Europe (SHARE) database. Among the 11 European countries, migrants generally have worse health than the native population. In these countries, there is a little evidence of the “healthy migrant” at ages 50 years and over. In general, it appears that growing numbers of immigrants may portend more health problems in the population in subsequent years.

Keywords: Immigrants; Mortality; Health; Disability; SHARE. (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 23 pages
Date: 2008-06, Revised 2008-06
New Economics Papers: this item is included in nep-eec, nep-hea, nep-lab and nep-mig
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