Health Assimilation Patterns Amongst Australian Immigrants

Kennedy, Steven; McDonald, James Ted; Biddle, Nicholas

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Health Assimilation Patterns Amongst Australian Immigrants

Date

2007

Authors

Kennedy, Steven

McDonald, James Ted

Biddle, Nicholas

Publisher

Blackwell Publishing Ltd

Abstract

This paper compares the health of Australian immigrants with that of the Australian-born population and examines the extent to which differences vary with time since migration. Health is measured using self-reports of chronic diseases from three national