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healthy immigrant effect: a standalone construct

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Population health

the observation that new immigrants are often healthier than the native-born, an advantage that tends to fade with time in the host country.

In population health, healthy immigrant effect refers to the observation that new immigrants are often healthier than the native-born, an advantage that tends to fade with time in the host country. This meaning comes from McDonald (2004) in Social Science & Medicine.[1]

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References

McDonald, J. T., & Kennedy, S. (2004). Insights into the ‘healthy immigrant effect’: health status and health service use of immigrants to Canada. Social Science & Medicine, 59(8), 1613-1627. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.socscimed.2004.02.004

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