ArticleJournal of immigrant and minority health2013
The relationship of language acculturation (English proficiency) to current self-rated health among African immigrant adults.
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21 citing papers in PubMed, 2 syntheses or guidelines pooled it.
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- The Impact of Limited English Proficiency on Healthcare Access and Outcomes in the U.S.: A Scoping Review.Healthcare (Basel, Switzerland) · 2024Article
- Duration of United States Residence and Self-Reported Health Among African-Born Immigrant Adults.Journal of immigrant and minority health · 2021Article
- Self-rated Health Disparities Among Asian Americans: Mediating Roles of Education Level and Household Income.Journal of immigrant and minority health · 2021Article
- Investigating the Association between English Proficiency and General Health among Marshallese Adults in the United States.Journal of health care for the poor and underserved · 2021Article
- Immigrant Children's Proficiency in the Host Country Language is More Important than Individual, Family and Peer Characteristics in Predicting Their Psychological Well-Being.Journal of immigrant and minority health · 2020Article
- Factors affecting the self-rated health of immigrant women married to native men and raising children in South Korea: a cross-sectional study.BMC women's health · 2020Article
- Understanding the healthcare experiences and needs of African immigrants in the United States: a scoping review.BMC public health · 2020Article
- The Effects of Perceived Discrimination on Immigrant and Refugee Physical and Mental Health.Advances in medical sociology · 2019Article
- Assessing the Likelihood of Having a Regular Health Care Provider among African American and African Immigrant Women.Ethnicity & disease · 2019Article
- Self-rated health and its association with perceived environmental hazards, the social environment, and cultural stressors in an environmental justice population.BMC public health · 2018Article
- The Length of Residence is Associated with Cardiovascular Disease Risk Factors among Foreign-English Teachers in Korea.Behavioral sciences (Basel, Switzerland) · 2017Article
- Segmentation of Mexican-Heritage Immigrants: Acculturation Typology and Language Preference in Health Information Seeking.Journal of immigrant and minority health · 2017Article
- Substance use, age at migration, and length of residence among adult immigrants in the United States.Journal of immigrant and minority health · 2015Article
- Challenges in researching migration status, health and health service use: an intersectional analysis of a South London community.Ethnicity & health · 2015Article
- Health literacy, acculturation, and the use of preventive oral health care by Somali refugees living in massachusetts.Journal of immigrant and minority health · 2014Article
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Abstract
Although over 1.5 million African immigrants live in the US, few studies have examined the relationship of language acculturation to health outcomes among African immigrant adults. The primary objective of this research was to investigate the relationship between English proficiency and current self-rated health among African immigrant adults. Using a cross-sectional design, a secondary data analysis was performed on baseline data from the African immigrant adult subsample (n = 763) of the 2003 New Immigrant Survey, a longitudinal study of lawful permanent residents. Limited English proficiency (LEP), increased duration of US residence, older age at immigration, being male, less than 12 years of education, poor pre-migration health, and chronic disease were associated with good/fair/poor current self-rated health. Findings support consideration of pre-migration health and chronic disease in future acculturation and health studies, and provision of linguistically competent interventions for LEP African immigrants at risk for poor health outcomes.
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