Health and Place
Volume 14, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 361-366

The effects of migration on the relationship between area socioeconomic structure and mortality (Article)

Martikainen P.* , Sipilä P. , Blomgren J. , van Lenthe F.J.
  • a Helsinki Collegium for Advanced Studies, University of Helsinki, P.O. Box 4, FIN-00014 Helsinki, Finland, Population Research Unit, Department of Sociology, University of Helsinki, P.O. Box 18, FIN-00014 Helsinki, Finland
  • b Population Research Unit, Department of Sociology, University of Helsinki, P.O. Box 18, FIN-00014 Helsinki, Finland
  • c National Public Health Institute, Mannerheimintie 160, FIN-00300 Helsinki, Finland
  • d Erasmus Medical Centre Rotterdam, Department of Public Health, P.O. Box 2040, 3000 CA Rotterdam, Netherlands

Abstract

We studied whether migration influences the relationship between area socioeconomic structure and mortality. We used data on Finns aged 25-64 that are linked to information on proportions of manual workers in 85 functional regions in 1987 and 1997, and on deaths in 1998-2004. Participants aged 25-44 moving to areas with a lower proportion of manual workers had lower mortality and those moving to areas with a higher proportion of manual workers had mortality similar to those residing in these areas at both time points. Among the 45-64-year-olds, all migrants between areas had increased mortality. However, because these mortality differences and the migratory flows were relatively small, their effects on area socioeconomic differences in mortality were also small. © 2007 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.

Author Keywords

Bias Migration Social structure Selection Mortality Finland

Index Keywords

male female priority journal Eurasia socioeconomics death certificate Finland social structure Scandinavia Europe Article Northern Europe mortality socioeconomic conditions human adult migration worker
Link
https://www.scopus.com/inward/record.uri?eid=2-s2.0-36749031182&doi=10.1016%2fj.healthplace.2007.07.004&partnerID=40&md5=80e0ee82809ce882709b3f6e3598cb8d
DOI: 10.1016/j.healthplace.2007.07.004
ISSN: 13538292
Cited by: 23
Original Language: English