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Migration and health: Adaptation experiences of Iranian migrants to the city of Teheran
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Some potential linkages between elements of migrants' adaptation experiences and observed health consequences are suggested, and several factors which appeared to influence this process are described.About:
This article is published in Social Science & Medicine.The article was published on 1974-05-01. It has received 13 citations till now.read more
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The directionality and age selectivity of the health-migration relation: evidence from sequences of disability and mobility in the United States.
TL;DR: A model of the health-migration relation is proposed which allows for age selectivity, nonlinearities, interactions, and dynamic effects, and it is proposed that there is a positive relation between health status and migration.
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Migration, medical care preferences and the lay referral system: a network theory of role assimilation*
TL;DR: In this article, a recurring but often overlooked pattern in adult socialization and the mechanism that produces this regularity in role assimilation is proposed. But the authors focus on factors that might influence the duration of and fluctuation between socialization stages.
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Migration, acculturation and utilization of primary health care.
TL;DR: Although acculturation seems to be a strong determinant of the migrant's utilization pattern of primary health care services, it does not consistently lead to a decrease of utilization differentials with the Belgian reference population, which may imply that there is a need for public health interventions targeted at ethnic minorities.
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Refugee research bibliography.
TL;DR: This is an unannotated, interdisciplinary bibliography on refugees, presented in alphabetical order by author and covering the period from the 1950s to the present.
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Health effects of rural-urban migration in developing countries—Senegal☆
A. Benyoussef,J.L. Cutler,A. Levine,P. Mansourian,T. Phan-Tan,R. Baylet,H. Collomb,S. Diop,Bernard Lacombe,J. Ravel,Jacques Vaugelade,G. Diebold +11 more
TL;DR: This study compared a group of rural residents to a similar tribal group that had migrated to an urban area and also sought to measure each urban individual's adaptation to urban life, which was related to certain physiological measurements.
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Institutional Completeness of Ethnic Communities and the Personal Relations of Immigrants
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors adopted the view that some of the most crucial factors bearing on the absorption of immigrants would be found in the social organ-ization of the communities which the immigrant contacts in the receiving country.
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Culture and symptoms-an analysis of patients' presenting complaints *
TL;DR: It is suggested that a socially conditioned selective process may be operating in what is brought in for medical treatment and not etiological ones which account for many of the previously unexplained epidemiological differences between societies and even between subgroups within a society.
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Sociocultural factors in the epidemiology of Zulu hypertension.
TL;DR: The conclusion is that there is a relationship between variables observed to be stressful hypertension, and in the city women with many children had a higher prevalence of hypertension than those with few children.