The shrinking health advantage: unintentional injuries among children and youth from immigrant families

Abstract Background Immigrants typically arrive in good health. This health benefit can decline as immigrants adopt behaviours similar to native-born populations. Risk of injury is low in immigrants but it is not known whether this changes with increasing time since migration. We sought to examine t...

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Main Authors: Natasha Ruth Saunders, Alison Macpherson, Jun Guan, Lisa Sheng, Astrid Guttmann
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: BMC 2017-08-01
Series:BMC Public Health
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Online Access:http://link.springer.com/article/10.1186/s12889-017-4612-1