ArticleJournal of immigrant and minority health2016
Healthy Migrant Effect on Smoking Behavior Among Asian Immigrants in the United States.
Article in Journal of immigrant and minority health, 2016. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 11 papers, 2 of them syntheses that pooled it.
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11 citing papers in PubMed, 2 syntheses or guidelines pooled it.
- Modifiable Risk Factors for Dementia Among Migrants, Refugees and Asylum Seekers in Australia: A Systematic Review.Journal of immigrant and minority health · 2023Pooled it
- Health Risk Behaviours by Immigrants' Duration of Residence: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis.International journal of public health · 2022Pooled it
- Knowledge, attitudes, and behaviours towards smoking among people with migration experience: a global scoping review.BMC public health · 2025Article
- Addressing Tobacco Screening and Treatment Among Racially and Ethnically Minoritized Parents in Pediatric Clinics: Barriers and Facilitators.Nicotine & tobacco research : official journal of the Society for Research on Nicotine and Tobacco · 2025Article
- Differences in Smoking Behavior by Nativity, Race/Ethnicity, and Education among Women Diagnosed with Breast Cancer.Cancer epidemiology, biomarkers & prevention : a publication of the American Association for Cancer Research, cosponsored by the American Society of Preventive Oncology · 2024Article
- Refugee Births and the Migrant Health Effect in Syracuse NY.Maternal and child health journal · 2023Article
- Smoking prevalence among Asian Americans: Associations with education, acculturation, and gender.Preventive medicine reports · 2022Article
- Perceptions of lung cancer screening and smoking behavior change among Chinese immigrants: A systematic review.Tobacco induced diseases · 2021Review
- Egocentric social networks, lifestyle behaviors, and body size in the Asian Community Health Initiative (CHI) cohort.PloS one · 2020Article
- Mortality advantage among migrants according to duration of stay in France, 2004-2014.BMC public health · 2019Article
- Intergenerational differences in smoking among West Indian, Haitian, Latin American, and African blacks in the United States.SSM - population health · 2017Article
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Abstract
Healthy migrant effect (HME) of immigrants has been evidenced in various heath aspects. However, few studies have explored the applicability of HME on Asian immigrants' health risk behavior-smoking. This study used three waves of Current Population Survey-Tobacco Use Supplement data, 1998-1999, 2005-2006, and 2010-2011, to compare the rates of being a current smoker among Asian immigrants and United States born citizens. Further, the odds ratios of gender, age, marital status, socioeconomic status, years of migration, and citizenship status on the likelihood of being a current smoker were examined. Across the three waves, Asian immigrants smoked at a much lower rate than their native-born counterparts. The gender gap of being a current smoker was much wider among Asian immigrants. The longer the Asian immigrants stayed in the United States, the more likely they were to become current smokers. These data confirmed the association of HME and Asian immigrants' smoking behavior, and also provided strong evidence of the importance of smoking prevention among Asian immigrants. This study also implied the possibility of a decline in the effectiveness of HME on Asian immigrants as the time they spent in the United States increased.
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