Nicholas Biddle

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors evaluate the role of selectivity as a potential explanation for the existence of the healthy immigrant effect across source and destination countries using a set of consistently defined measures of health, and find that selectivity plays an important role in the observed better health of migrants vis a vis those who stay behind in their country of origin.

TL;DR: Examining the health outcomes, health behaviours, and socio-economic characteristics of immigrants from a range of source countries in the US, Canada, UK and Australia finds evidence of strong positive selection effects for immigrants from all regions of origin in terms of education, but also finds evidence that self-selection in Terms of unobservable factors is an important determinant of the better health of recent immigrants.

TL;DR: In this paper, a representative longitudinal online survey of over 3000 adults from Australia that examines the demographic, attitudinal, political and social attitudes and COVID-19 health behavior correlates of vaccine hesitance and resistance to a COVID19 vaccine was conducted.

TL;DR: The findings suggest that vaccine hesitancy can be addressed by public health messaging but that for a significant minority of the population with strongly held beliefs, alternative policy measures may well be needed to achieve sufficient vaccination coverage to end the pandemic.

TL;DR: It is found that the health of Australian immigrants is better than the Australian-born population, but the longer immigrants spend in Australia, the closer their health approximates that of the Australia- born population.