Living conditions and health:<i>A population-based study of labour migrants and Latin American refugees in Sweden and those who were repatriated</i>
Scandinavian Journal of Primary Health CarePublished 1 January 1995Open access
Jan Sundquist
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This study shows a clear ethnic segregation in housing and other living conditions between Swedes and immigrants, where Latin American refugees and repatriated Latin Americans were most vulnerable.
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This study shows a clear ethnic segregation in housing and other living conditions between Swedes and immigrants, where Latin American refugees and repatriated Latin Americans were most vulnerable. All immigrants had increased self-rated poor health compared with Swedes. Being an immigrant was a risk factor for poor health of equal importance to more traditional risk factors such as lifestyle factors.
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