Integrating social epidemiology into immigrant health research: A cross-national framework
Integrating social epidemiology into immigrant health research: A cross-national framework
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DOI：
10.1016/j.socscimed.2012.04.040
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发表时间：
2012-12-01
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5.4
通讯作者：
Almeida, Joanna
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作者：
Acevedo-Garcia, Dolores;Sanchez-Vaznaugh, Emma V.;Almeida, Joanna
在过去的二十年里，移民健康奖学金稳步增加。这一调查方向往往被视为一个涉及离散的脱离背景的人口的“专业”专题，而不是一个对了解始发国和接收国内部和之间的人口健康模式至关重要的专题。移民健康研究经常采用理论框架（例如，文化适应），强调文化解释，而较少使用的是“健康的社会决定因素”框架，强调社会和结构解释。借鉴经济学，移民社会学和社会流行病学领域的文献，我们提出了一个概念框架，从跨国的角度来理解移民的健康。我们讨论了这一框架的理论基础;使用这一框架进行移民和健康研究的方法学挑战;这一领域新兴研究的例子;以及未来研究的方向。通过加强了解始发国和接收国社会的人口健康模式，可以在移民健康研究和人口健康改善方面取得进展。移民健康研究需要更好地融入社会流行病学。同时，移民健康研究提供了概念，经验和分析的机会，以推进社会流行病学研究。总之，移民健康和社会流行病学的奖学金可以对他们的共同和最终目标之一做出重大贡献：提高对人口健康的认识。(C)2012爱思唯尔有限公司保留所有权利。
Scholarship on immigrant health has steadily increased over the past two decades. This line of inquiry is often approached as a "specialty" topic involving a discrete de-contextualized population, rather than a topic that is central for understanding patterns of population health within and between sending and receiving countries. Frequently immigrant health research employs theoretical frameworks (e.g., acculturation) that emphasize cultural explanations, while less commonly utilized is the "social determinants of health" framework, which emphasizes social and structural explanations. Drawing upon literature in the fields of economics, sociology of immigration, and social epidemiology, we present a conceptual framework for understanding immigrant health from a cross-national perspective. We discuss the theoretical foundations of this framework; the methodological challenges for undertaking research on immigration and health using this framework; examples of emerging research in this area; and directions for future research. Progress in immigrant health research and population health improvements can be achieved through an enhanced understanding of population health patterns in sending and receiving societies. Immigrant health research needs to be better integrated into social epidemiology. Concurrently, immigrant health research offers conceptual, empirical, and analytic opportunities to advance social epidemiological research. Together, scholarship in immigrant health and social epidemiology can make significant contributions toward one of their mutual and ultimate goals: to improve knowledge about population health. (C) 2012 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.