Birds of a feather flock together--and fall ill? Migrant homophily and health in Sweden.

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  2010

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  Sociology of Health and Illness

• Publication date

  2010-03-01

• Fields of study

  Sociology, Medicine

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  DOI 10.1111/j.1467-9566.2009.01196.xPMID 20415788
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