Newbold Bruce
School of Geography & Earth Sciences, McMaster University, Ontario, Canada.
Ethn Health. 2009 Jun;14(3):315-36. doi: 10.1080/13557850802609956.
The objectives of the current paper are to address the timing of declines in health after arrival in the host country, and to document differences in health status by immigrant arrival group (economic immigrants, family reunification, and refugees).
Statistics Canada's Longitudinal Survey of Immigrants to Canada captures health and other attributes of a cohort of immigrant arrivals to Canada at six months, two years, and four years after arrival. Descriptive and multivariate methods are applied to this data file in order to ascertain changes in health status in the period immediately after arrival.
Significant declines in health status are noted within as little as two years post-arrival. In addition, refugees are observed to have lower levels of health and are more likely to transition to a state of poor health, while economic immigrants report the highest levels of self-assessed health.
The health status of new arrivals, measured by self-assessed health, physical health, and mental health, declines quickly after arrival. Refugees generally experience the lowest levels of health.
本文的目标是探讨抵达东道国后健康状况下降的时间点，并记录不同移民群体（经济移民、家庭团聚移民和难民）的健康状况差异。
加拿大统计局的《加拿大移民纵向调查》收集了一批抵达加拿大的移民在抵达后六个月、两年和四年时的健康及其他特征。运用描述性和多变量方法对该数据文件进行分析，以确定抵达后短期内健康状况的变化。
抵达后短短两年内，健康状况就出现了显著下降。此外，观察发现难民的健康水平较低，且更有可能转变为健康状况不佳的状态，而经济移民报告的自我评估健康水平最高。
通过自我评估健康、身体健康和心理健康衡量的新移民健康状况在抵达后迅速下降。难民的健康水平总体上最低。
