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Population Health

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Project

Health Inequalities in Immigrants: Burden of Multimorbidity (Dissertation)

Su Yeon Jang (MPIDR / Erasmus University Medical Center, Rotterdam, Netherlands), Mikko Myrskylä, Silvia Loi, Anna Oksuzyan (MPIDR / Bielefeld University, Germany), Frank J van Lenthe (Erasmus University Medical Center, Rotterdam, Netherlands)

This dissertation project studies the aging of immigrants over their stay in receiving countries. It focuses on the health outcome measure of multimorbidity and on the micro- and macro-level social contexts that play important roles in modifying changes to their health.  Detailed Description

Publications

Jang, S. Y.; Loi, S.; van Lenthe, F. J.; Oksuzyan, A.; Myrskylä, M.:

Inequalities in multimorbidity between older migrants and natives across Europe

MPIDR Working Paper WP-2024-003. (2024)    

Jang, S. Y.; Myrskylä, M.; van Lenthe, F. J.; Loi, S.; Oksuzyan, A.:

Living arrangements and the speed of chronic disease accumulation among older migrants and natives

European Journal of Public Health 33:Suppl. 2, ii134–ii134. (2023)    

Jang, S. Y.; Oksuzyan, A.; Myrskylä, M.; van Lenthe, F. J.; Loi, S.:

Healthy immigrants, unhealthy ageing? Analysis of health decline among older migrants and natives across European countries

MPIDR Working Paper WP-2023-024. (2023)    

Jang, S. Y.; Oksuzyan, A.; van Lenthe, F. J.; Loi, S.; Myrskylä, M.:

Multimorbidity patterns in older migrants and natives across Europe

European Journal of Public Health 33:Suppl. 2, ii314–ii314. (2023)