Contextual factors and immigrants' health status: Double jeopardy
(2008) Health & Place — Vol. 14, n° 4, p. 678-692 (2008)
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- Poor health among immigrants may be accounted for not only by socio-economic factors affecting individuals but also by the environment in which they live. We investigated the association of contextual factors with disparities in self-rated health between native and immigrant groups. The findings indicated that, compared with native-born Belgians, immigrant groups from Turkey and Morocco were more likely to have poorer self-rated health. When contextual factors and individual socio-economic status were allowed for, all immigrant groups had a health status that was similar to or even better than that of native-born Belgians. Immigrants face a double jeopardy at both the individual and the contextual level.
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Lorant, V., Van Oyen, H., & Thomas, I. (2008). Contextual factors and immigrants’ health status: Double jeopardy. Health & Place, 14(4), 678-692. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.healthplace.2007.10.012 (Original work published 2008)