Sex differences in mortality in migrants and the Swedish-born population: Is there a double survival advantage for immigrant women?

Anna Oksuzyan (), Eleonora Mussino and Sven Drefahl
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Anna Oksuzyan: Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research
Eleonora Mussino: Stockholm University
Sven Drefahl: Stockholm University

International Journal of Public Health, 2019, vol. 64, issue 3, No 9, 377-386

Abstract: Abstract Objectives In the present study, we examine whether the relationships between country of origin or reason for migration and mortality differ between men and women. Methods We apply hazard regression models on high-quality Swedish register data with nationwide coverage. Results Relative to their Swedish counterparts, migrants from Nordic and East European (EU) countries and former Yugoslavia have higher mortality. This excess mortality among migrants relative to Swedes is more pronounced in men than in women. Migrants from Western and Southern European countries; Iran, Iraq, and Turkey; Central and South America; and Asia, have lower mortality than Swedes, and the size of the mortality reduction is similar in both sexes. The predictive effects of the reason for migration for mortality are also similar in migrant men and women. Conclusions This study provides little support for the hypothesis of a double survival advantage among immigrant women in Sweden. However, it does show that the excess mortality in migrants from Nordic and EU countries and former Yugoslavia relative to the Swedish-born population is more pronounced in men than in women.

Keywords: Sex; Migrant; Reason for migration; Mortality; Healthy migrant effect; Survival advantage; Register; Sweden (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2019
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DOI: 10.1007/s00038-019-01208-1

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