PMID: 11924746Apr 2, 2002Paper

Health and well-being among 70-year-old migrants living in Sweden--results from the H 70 gerontological and geriatric population studies in Göteborg

Social Psychiatry and Psychiatric Epidemiology
E SilveiraB Steen

Abstract

Comparative epidemiological studies in migrants in Sweden have shown increased prevalence of psychosocial morbidity in young adults, but there is paucity of information on health in people aged 65 years and over. We aim to compare prevalence of mental, physical and social health problems, rates of hospital admission, and mortality in Swedish and non-Swedish born people aged 70 years living in Göteborg, Sweden, and examine associations between social factors, physical health, mood and life satisfaction in the ethnic groups. In addition, we aim to test for the hypothesis that differences in mental health between migrants and natives are explained by social disadvantages rather than ethnicity. Semi-structured interviews were administered to 84 migrants (47 women and 37 men randomly selected) with the help of bilingual interpreters, and 409 Swedes (183 males and 226 females) used as "controls". Complementary health and social data obtained from official sources on the total sample (N = 764, including non-participants in overall medical interviews) were used in comparative analyses of in-patient care and mortality and to check for the possibility of sampling bias. Migrants--originating mainly from Estonia, Poland, Yugoslavia, German...Continue Reading

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