Migration Effects on Health of Working Age Vietnamese

移民对劳动年龄越南人健康的影响

• 批准号: 6459260
• 负责人: Mark J. Vanlandingham
• 金额: $ 7.43万
• 依托单位: TULANE UNIVERSITY OF LOUISIANA
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 财政年份: 2002
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2002-08-01 至 2004-07-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/6459260
• 关键词: United States; behavioral /social science research tag; clinical research; epidemiology; functional ability; health; health behavior; human middle age (35-64); human migration; human population study; human subject; interview; mental health; method development; southeast Asia; southeast Asian; urban area; young adult human (21-34)

The proposed study will examine a number of health outcomes among Vietnamese living both in the United States and in Vietnam. A major substantive focus will be the investigation of overall health status and core health beliefs among working-age Vietnamese adults who have recently immigrated to the United States. Key dimensions of health to be exposed include physical functioning, role limitations, pain, social functioning, general mental health, stress, vitality, energy, fatigue, and general health perceptions. While there is an extensive literature on the health of other major immigrant groups, we know much less about the health of Vietnamese Americans, who constitute one of the largest waves of immigration to the United States in recent history. A major methodological focus will involve the development of new techniques to better explain health differences between migrants and non-migrants. Attributing reported effects of migration on health to specific causes are complicated by the inherent difficulties of separating the effects of migration per se from selection factors. If migrants are not representative of sending populations, then differences between migrants and non-migrants in the sending countries are difficult to interpret. Our approach to separating migration effects from selection effects involves a "natural" experiment that compares three distinct groups: Vietnamese immigrants in the United States; Vietnamese who have never left Vietnam; and Vietnamese returnees in Vietnam.

拟议的研究将调查居住在美国和越南的越南人的一些健康结果。一个主要的实质性重点将是对最近移民到美国的工作年龄越南成年人的整体健康状况和核心健康信念进行调查。健康的关键维度包括身体机能、角色限制、疼痛、社会功能、一般心理健康、压力、活力、能量、疲劳和一般健康认知。虽然有大量关于其他主要移民群体健康状况的文献，但我们对越南裔美国人的健康状况知之甚少，他们是美国近代历史上最大的移民潮之一。主要方法论重点将涉及新技术的开发，以更好地解释移民和非移民之间的健康差异。由于将移民本身的影响与选择因素分开的固有困难，将报告的移民对健康的影响归因于特定原因变得复杂。如果移民不能代表输出人口，那么输出国的移民和非移民之间的差异就很难解释。我们将移民效应与选择效应分开的方法涉及一个“自然”实验，该实验比较了三个不同的群体：在美国的越南移民；从未离开过越南的越南人；以及在越南的越南归国人员。