The 'Sick immigrant' and 'Healthy immigrant' phenomenon among Jews migrating from the USSR to Israel

• Autori principali: Ronit Pinchas-Mizrachi (Autore), Yaakov Naparstek (Autore), Ronit Nirel (Autore), Ehud Kukia (Autore)
• Natura: Libro
• Pubblicazione: Elsevier, 2020-12-01T00:00:00Z.
• Soggetti: article
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The "healthy immigrant" phenomenon finds that immigrants are in better health than natives, while the "sick immigrant" phenomenon finds the opposite. We examined this phenomenon using the relationship between immigration and mortality, stratified by income level, among Soviet imm...