Being an immigrant is associated with 21% more hospitalisations amongst lower users but with 26% fewer hospitalisations amongst high users.
Again, being an immigrant is associated with a lower employment probability and this disadvantage is attenuated for the second generation.
Another study based on a nationally representative Swedish sample investigating life satisfaction found that having no partner and being a first-generation immigrant were associated with reporting of low levels of satisfaction [ 32].
The naturalization status of immigrants was associated with a decreased risk of perinatal mortality in multivariate analyses.
It was concluded that the higher blood pressure in immigrants was associated with acculturation, with the stress of cultural change being the major component.
The second aim was to study how frequency of drinking among adult immigrants was associated with social interaction with their own countrymen and ethnic Norwegians, acculturation factors, age, gender, socioeconomic factors and the Muslim religion.
The second aim was to study how frequency of drinking among adult immigrants was associated with social interaction with their own countrymen and ethnic Norwegians, acculturation, age, gender, socioeconomic factors and the Muslim faith.
Increased risk was equal for both first and second generation immigrants, and this finding has led to a growing consensus that the development of psychotic disorders in immigrants is associated with sensitization to environmental stressors related to the post-immigration context [ 4- 8].
Thus, age differences in the stress process of recent immigrants are associated with age-specific perceived adjustment difficulties and demographic characteristics.
Card et al. (2012) find instead that more immigrants are associated with lower amenities or quality of life for natives and produce more negative attitudes about immigration.
