Mortality among US-born and immigrant Hispanics in the US: effects of nativity, duration of residence, and age at immigration

Julia Holmes (), Anne Driscoll () and Melonie Heron ()

International Journal of Public Health, 2015, vol. 60, issue 5, 609-617

Abstract: Findings suggest that age at immigration, rather than duration of residence, drives differences in mortality between Hispanic immigrants and the US-born Hispanic population. Copyright Swiss School of Public Health (outside the USA) 2015

Keywords: Immigration; Age at immigration; Mortality; Health behaviors; Hispanics; Acculturation (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2015
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DOI: 10.1007/s00038-015-0686-7

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