Climate shock: Moving to colder climates and immigrant mortality.
Climate
Cross-national
Immigration
Meta-analysis
Metaregression
Mortality
Journal
Social science & medicine (1982)
ISSN: 1873-5347
Titre abrégé: Soc Sci Med
Pays: England
ID NLM: 8303205
Informations de publication
Date de publication:
08 2019
08 2019
Historique:
received:
26
12
2018
revised:
17
05
2019
accepted:
03
07
2019
pubmed:
16
7
2019
medline:
25
8
2020
entrez:
16
7
2019
Statut:
ppublish
Résumé
Research shows that immigrants often have lower mortality rates than native-born residents in their countries of destination. However, it is unclear whether this mortality advantage holds for all immigrant groups. Specifically, considering the epidemiological research on the potential negative health effects of cold weather, we examine here whether relative mortality is moderated by differences in climate between origin and destination countries. We conducted a meta-regression analysis on 890 rate ratios from 55 publications, comparing all-cause and cardiovascular mortality of immigrants from 70 different countries and native populations in 12 destination countries. We found that immigrants who move between countries with a relatively similar climate experience a mortality advantage. However, those who move from a warmer to a colder climate do not. In fact, they have higher cardiovascular mortality rates when compared to the native population.
Identifiants
pubmed: 31306882
pii: S0277-9536(19)30383-1
doi: 10.1016/j.socscimed.2019.112397
pii:
doi:
Types de publication
Journal Article
Review
Langues
eng
Sous-ensembles de citation
IM
Pagination
112397Informations de copyright
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