ArticleBMC public health2015
Prospective register-based study of the impact of immigration on educational inequalities in mortality in Norway.
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- The role of oral health literacy in shaping health behaviors among migrants in Norway. An integrative review.BMC oral health · 2025Pooled it
- Mortality differences between immigrant and native children and youths in Denmark: a nationwide cohort study focusing on refugees and family-reunified immigrants.European journal of pediatrics · 2026Article
- Socioeconomic inequalities in life expectancy within and between native-born and foreign-born populations: a comparative study of 10 European countries.International journal of epidemiology · 2026Article
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- Common social determinants for overweight and obesity, and dental caries among adolescents in Northern Norway: a cross-sectional study from the Tromsø Study Fit Futures cohort.BMC oral health · 2021Article
- Socioeconomic Inequalities in Mortality among Foreign-Born and Spanish-Born in Small Areas in Cities of the Mediterranean Coast in Spain, 2009-2015.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2020Article
- The definition of immigrant status matters: impact of nationality, country of origin, and length of stay in host country on mortality estimates.BMC public health · 2019Article
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Abstract
backgroundDifferences in mortality with regard to socioeconomic status have widened in recent decades in many European countries, including Norway. A rapid upsurge of immigration to Norway has occurred since the 1990s. The article investigates the impact of immigration on educational mortality differences among adults in Norway.
methodsTwo linked register-based data sets are analyzed; the first consists of all registered inhabitants aged 20-69 in Norway January 1, 1993 (2.6 millions), and the second of all registered inhabitants aged 20-69 as of January 1, 2008 (2.8 millions). Deaths 1993-1996 and 2008-2011, respectively, immigrant status, and other background information are available in the data. Mortality is examined by Cox regression analyses and by estimations of age-adjusted deaths per 100,000 personyears.
resultsBoth relative and absolute educational inequality in mortality increased from the 1993-1996 period to 2008-2011, but overall mortality levels went down during these years. Immigrants in general, and almost all the analyzed immigrant subcategories, had lower mortality than the native majority. This was due to comparatively low mortality among lower educated immigrants, while mortality among higher educated immigrants was similar to the mortality level of highly educated natives.
conclusionsThe widening of educational inequality in mortality during the 1990s and 2000s in Norway was not due to immigration. Immigration rather contributed to slightly lower overall mortality in the population and a less steep educational gradient in mortality.
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