Mortality in Adult Offspring of Immigrants: A Swedish National Cohort Study

Hélio Manhica, Susanna Toivanen, Anders Hjern and Mikael Rostila

PLOS ONE, 2015, vol. 10, issue 2, 1-11

Abstract: Background: Higher risks of psychiatric disorders and lower-than-average subjective health in adulthood have been demonstrated in offspring of immigrants in Sweden compared with offspring of native Swedes, and linked to relative socioeconomic disadvantage. The present study investigated mortality rates in relation to this inequity from a gender perspective. Methods: We used data from national registers covering the entire Swedish population aged 18-65 years. Offspring of foreign-born parents who were either Swedish born or had received residency in Sweden before school age (

Date: 2015
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