The healthy immigrant (migrant) effect: In search of a better native-born comparison group.

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  2015

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  Social Science Research

• Publication date

  2015-11-01

• Fields of study

  Sociology, Medicine

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  DOI 10.1016/j.ssresearch.2015.08.008PMID 26463553PMCID PMC4947228
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