{"id":1364,"date":"2015-01-07T15:00:32","date_gmt":"2015-01-07T14:00:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ijph.blogs.springer.com\/?p=1364"},"modified":"2015-01-07T15:00:32","modified_gmt":"2015-01-07T14:00:32","slug":"health-disadvantage-of-eastern-european-immigrants-in-western-europe","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blogs.springer.com\/ijph\/food-for-thought\/health-disadvantage-of-eastern-european-immigrants-in-western-europe\/","title":{"rendered":"Health disadvantage of Eastern European immigrants in Western Europe"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>According to literature, immigrants tend to have poorer health than native-born people. Between 1950 and 1990 an estimated 12 million people left Eastern European countries and a lot of them resided in Western Europe. In <a href=\"http:\/\/link.springer.com\/article\/10.1007\/s00038-014-0629-8\">a study we just published<\/a>, the authors sought to investigate whether immigrants from Eastern European countries above 50 years of age who live in Nothern and Western Europe have a health disadvantage in terms of self-perceived health.<\/p>\n<p>Data was taken from the Survey of Health, Ageing and Retirement in Europe (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.share-project.org\/\">SHARE<\/a>). The authors report a health disadvantage of Eastern European immigrants living in Germany, France and Sweden, even after controlling for socio-economic status. Eastern European immigrants were more likely to experience worsening health over time and less likely to recover from illness.<\/p>\n<p>The study also showed that Eastern European immigrants who immigrated between 1945-1989 and short-term immigrants arriving after 1989 have a greater risk of being in poor health compared to native-born.<\/p>\n<p>The authors suggest as possible solutions to increase and target services providing healthcare to the more disadvantaged groups of immigrants.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>* This study was written by D. Lanari, O. <a href=\"http:\/\/terni.unipg.it\/index.php?page=bussini-odoardo\">Bussini <\/a>and L.Minelli<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p class=\"excerpt\">According to literature, immigrants tend to have poorer health than native-born people. Between 1950 and 1990 an estimated 12 million people left Eastern European countries and a lot of them resided in Western Europe. In a study we just published, the authors sought to investigate whether immigrants from Eastern European countries above 50 years of&#8230;  <a class=\"excerpt-read-more\" href=\"http:\/\/blogs.springer.com\/ijph\/food-for-thought\/health-disadvantage-of-eastern-european-immigrants-in-western-europe\/\" title=\"Read Health disadvantage of Eastern European immigrants in Western Europe\">Read more &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":301,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,9,11],"tags":[244,288,685,782,792],"class_list":["post-1364","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-food-for-thought","category-general-public-health","category-international-journal-of-public-health","tag-eastern-european-immigrants","tag-europe","tag-probabilities-of-transition","tag-self-perceived-health","tag-share"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.springer.com\/ijph\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1364","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.springer.com\/ijph\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.springer.com\/ijph\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.springer.com\/ijph\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/301"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.springer.com\/ijph\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1364"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.springer.com\/ijph\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1364\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.springer.com\/ijph\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1364"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.springer.com\/ijph\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1364"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.springer.com\/ijph\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1364"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}