There is A Health Immigrant Effect In Canada, Says Study

Getting to a new town in your own country can be a difficult thing as you have to adjust and change with what is happening in that town. However, to actually move to another country is definitely even more difficult as the rules, people, language, and culture can be even far more different than the place that you grew up in.

If you are an immigrant in Canada, you would be one of the lucky ones. The good thing about being able to be a resident of Canada is that you are subject to a good type of effect which a recent study has confirmed and concluded. This is known as the health immigrant effect and many immigrants to the country are happy about it.

The study and what it says

A study was recently concluded. This study was spearheaded by the University of Toronto as well as the Institute for Clinical Evaluative Sciences. These two groups looked at the immigrants in Canada for their study.

The study focused on mortality rates. They used people’s immigration status and socioeconomic status for this. The numbers showed that the immigrations have a 60% lesser chance of dying as compared to other Canadians born in the country or other Ontario residents who have been living in the country for a long period of time. This shows that the immigrants enjoy a lower death rate as compared to those who are not. The study also disclosed that it does not matter if the immigrants are living even in the areas that are most destitute.

A look at death rate

What is the mortality rate? Mortality rate is also known as the death rate. It is a way of measuring the deaths in a certain population. Usually, it is computed by adding all deaths for each 1000 individuals. This is computed through a certain timeframe.

With this in mind, the immigrants had a lower rate as compared to the non-immigrants. The study’s numbers were from the years 2002 to 2012.

Laura Rosella is one of the authors of the study. She is the lead person for this. She works as an epidemiologist at the University of Toronto. The study that they had worked on was published in a health journal on community health. She stated that they were actually surprised by the huge difference in mortality rates between immigrants and non-immigrants. The difference is definitely something important as it is quite huge.

The study had worked on the death rates among various socioeconomic classes that the immigrants were part of. They looked at the same classes for Canadians who are born in the country as well as Canadians who have been residents for a long time in the country and have gone there before 1985. They took information from databases that looked at different population types as well as demographics. They also made use of death data from the Registrar General of Ontario.

 

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