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IJE Advance Access originally published online on July 17, 2006
International Journal of Epidemiology 2006 35(4):919-921; doi:10.1093/ije/dyl143
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Published by Oxford University Press on behalf of the International Epidemiological Association © The Author 2006; all rights reserved.

Commentary

Commentary: Of salmon and time travellers—musing on the mystery of migrant mortality

Oliver Razum

Department of Epidemiology & International Public Health, Bielefeld University, School of Public Health, PO Box 10 01 31, 33501 Bielefeld, Germany. E-mail: oliver.razum@uni-bielefeld.de

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   Paradoxes abound
 
Socioeconomic status is known to be strongly and inversely associated with mortality: those who are poor, unemployed, or have a low educational attainment experience higher mortality than the rich, employed, and well-educated. Immigrants tend to have, on average, a lower socioeconomic status than the majority population of the destination country. And yet, their mortality, overall as well as for certain specific causes, is often lower in comparison—a paradox.1 In this issue of the journal, Singh and Hiatt2 report similar findings from the US. Foreign-born persons of all four major racial/ethnic groups—Asians, blacks, Hispanics, and non-Hispanic whites—have a mortality advantage relative to the US-born. Levels of socioeconomic achievement among many immigrant . . . [Full Text of this Article]


   Effects of study design?
 

   More metaphors
 

   Dreams of an ‘ideal’ migrant cohort
 

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