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Immigration, ethnicity and cancer in U.S. women

27 Jun 2007

The results confirm that the healthy immigrant effect is present in terms of the prevalence of certain forms of cancer in comparison with both US born whites and with US born ethnic minority groups. [...] A question of particular interest in the paper is the extent to which the occurrence of these cancers among immigrants changes with years in the United States, after controlling for age and socio-economic influences. [...] The results seem to confirm that the healthy immigrant effect is present in terms of the prevalence of certain forms of cancer in comparison with both US born whites and with US born ethnic minority groups. [...] McDonald and Kennedy (2005) and Antecol and Bedard (2006) find similar results in terms of the incidence of obesity among Canadian and American immigrants respectively.6 3. Methodology We estimate logistic models of the occurrence of different types of cancer (breast, cervical, ovarian, uterine, any of these four types of cancer, and any type of cancer) as a function of a range of demographic, soc [...] The relevant question in the National Health Interview Surveys that is used for the analysis is “Have you ever been diagnosed with cancer?” If the individual answers in the affirmative, then the NHIS data asks the location(s) of the cancer and the year that it was diagnosed.
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Authors

McDonald, James Ted

Pages
44
Published in
Canada

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