Migration, adaptation, and illness: A review

Hull, Diana

doi:10.1016/0160-7979(79)90005-5

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“…The results also showed, in accordance with previous investigations of migrants, that foreign-born persons had weaker social networks [5]- [7] and thus described having less emotional aid than Swedes. Although they seemed to compensate for this deficiency with more contacts with health care staff and counsellors, this needs to be attended to as the higher contact frequency might be related to the fact that they had lost an important contact in their network during the previous year.…”

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confidence: 81%

“…In foreign-born persons the acculturation process in the host country acts as an additional stressor, requiring further adaptation [4]. It also includes migrational background, experiences of uprooting, and broken or limited social networks negatively affecting health [5]- [7]. Social support is claimed to play an important role in self-management of DM [8] by influencing compliance with advice about management of the disease, and this influences glycaemic control [9] [10].…”

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confidence: 99%

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Dissimilarities in Social Support as Described by Swedish- and Foreign-Born Persons Diagnosed with Type 2 Diabetes and Living in Sweden

Hjelm¹,

Berterö²

2014

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Diabetes (DM) requires self-care that is demanding and may cause stress. Social support can buffer effects of stress. No previous study has been found comparing perceptions of foreign-born persons with DM, concerning the content of and need for social support with a population of origin. The aim was to compare the meaning of support and its impact on the life situation in Swedishand foreign-born persons diagnosed with type 2 DM living in Sweden. A purposive sample of 74 persons; 34 foreign-and 40 Swedish-born, aged 32 -80 years, diagnosed with type 2 DM, was included. The foreign-born persons were mostly Middle Eastern and Ex-Yugoslavian refugees. Mixed methods were used and data were collected by qualitative interviews and quantitative data collected by the Norbeck Social Support Questionnaire (NSSQ). Studying the figures measured by NSSQ, no significant differences were found according to gender but foreign-born men scored lower than Swedish, especially in emotional support and aid. The main findings showed that respondents, irrespective of origin, described the meaning of the concept of support mainly as information support in learning to manage DM. However, foreign-born persons also focused on medical support with regular follow-ups while Swedes emphasized the need for emotional support. Foreign-and Swedish-born persons are in general more similar than dissimilar in describing the meaning, need and impact of support. Irrespective of origin they want to learn to manage their disease and thus desire and need regular follow-up and information immediately from being diagnosed. Further studies are needed as the study is based on a limited sample.

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Section: Discussionsupporting

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Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%

Dissimilarities in Social Support as Described by Swedish- and Foreign-Born Persons Diagnosed with Type 2 Diabetes and Living in Sweden

Hjelm¹,

Berterö²

2014

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“…Finally, migration itself may induce a decline in health, due in part to the stress associated with new social environments (Ferraro 1983;Hull 1979;McKinlay 1975). Areas of high in-migration might then, ceteris paribus, have potentially higher rates of morbidity.…”

Section: The Role Of Selective Migrationmentioning

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The effects of migration on the detection of geographic differences in disease risk

Rogerson¹,

Han²

2002

Social Science & Medicine

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Human migration can make it more difficult to detect geographic differences in disease risk because of the spatial diffusion of people originally exposed in a given geographic area. There are also situations where migration can facilitate the detection of disease attributable to environmental hazards. This paper assesses the effects that migration has on the ability to detect regional variability in disease risk. Several characteristics of migration are discussed, including some that are not widely known. Because of regional variations in mobility rates and other characteristics of the migration process, there is substantial regional variation in the ability to detect spatial variation in risk. r

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“…Health itself can impact the decision to move and migration may affect the health of those who move, those who stay, and perhaps even those who host migrants (Hull, 1979).…”

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confidence: 99%

Test of the ‘healthy migrant hypothesis’: A longitudinal analysis of health selectivity of internal migration in Indonesia

2008

Social Science & Medicine

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Previous studies have shown that immigrants are generally healthier than the native-born populations of receiving societies, a result generally attributed to the positive selection of migrants with respect to health. This hypothesis, however, has not been adequately evaluated due to data limitations. Using high-quality longitudinal data from Indonesia, I explicitly examine the health selectivity hypothesis, also referred to as the healthy migrant hypothesis, with respect to internal migration. Specifically, I study whether pre-migration health status affects the likelihood of migration by comparing those from the sending population who do and do not move. Results show that migrants in Indonesia do tend to be selected with respect to health and that this aspect of selection is robust to household unobserved heterogeneity.However, the strength and direction of the health-migration association vary by different types of migration and distinctive dimensions of health.

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Migration, adaptation, and illness: A review

Cited by 78 publications

References 53 publications

Dissimilarities in Social Support as Described by Swedish- and Foreign-Born Persons Diagnosed with Type 2 Diabetes and Living in Sweden

Dissimilarities in Social Support as Described by Swedish- and Foreign-Born Persons Diagnosed with Type 2 Diabetes and Living in Sweden

The effects of migration on the detection of geographic differences in disease risk

Test of the ‘healthy migrant hypothesis’: A longitudinal analysis of health selectivity of internal migration in Indonesia

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