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- Title
Duration of United States Residence and Self-Reported Health Among African-Born Immigrant Adults.
- Authors
Nwankwo, Ezinne M.; Wallace, Steven P.
- Abstract
Although researchers have found an inverse relationship between length of U.S. residence and health, research on this issue among African-born immigrants is limited. Data from the 2011–2015 National Health Interview Surveys were pooled for African-born immigrants (N = 1137) and used to estimate weighted ordinary least squares regression models on self-reported health, adjusting for common immigrant health predictors. Length of U.S. residence was associated with significant health status declines only among those that had lived in the U.S. for 10 to less than 15 years (b = − 0.235, p < 0.05), net of covariates. African-born immigrants may have both different selection processes than other immigrants and not follow common integration patterns. These findings suggest that existing immigrant health frameworks may need modification to fully apply to this growing U.S. immigrant population.
- Subjects
UNITED States; AFRICA; IMMIGRANTS; BIRTHPLACES; HEALTH services accessibility; SELF-evaluation; TIME; HEALTH status indicators; REGRESSION analysis; CONCEPTUAL structures; SOCIOECONOMIC factors; DESCRIPTIVE statistics; RESIDENTIAL patterns; DATA analysis software
- Publication
Journal of Immigrant & Minority Health, 2021, Vol 23, Issue 4, p773
- ISSN
1557-1912
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1007/s10903-020-01073-8