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Health Assimilation Patterns Amongst Australian Immigrants*
Author(s) -
BIDDLE NICHOLAS,
KENNEDY STEVEN,
MCDONALD JAMES TED
Publication year - 2007
Publication title -
economic record
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.365
H-Index - 42
eISSN - 1475-4932
pISSN - 0013-0249
DOI - 10.1111/j.1475-4932.2007.00373.x
Subject(s) - immigration , australian population , population , probit model , geography , demography , demographic economics , population health , assimilation (phonology) , medicine , sociology , economics , archaeology , econometrics , linguistics , philosophy
This paper compares the health of Australian immigrants with that of the Australian‐born population and examines the extent to which differences vary with time since migration. Health is measured using self‐reports of chronic diseases from three national health surveys. Probit models are used to estimate the health effects of immigrant arrival cohorts, years since migration and country of birth. We find 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 Australian‐born population. There are variations for different immigrant groups and for particular chronic diseases.