title: Mortality among young immigrants to California: injury compared to disease deaths.
abstract: The authors "investigated adolescent and young adult immigrants' risk of death due to disease and injury.... The death certificates of 15- to 34-year-old California residents who died from 1989 through 1993 comprised the study population. Disease and injury deaths were identified using ICD-9 codes on the California Master Mortality data files. Frequencies and gender-standardized rates and risk ratios were calculated by nativity (U.S., non-U.S.) and by ethnicity and nativity."  The results suggest that "young immigrants, at least in terms of mortality, do not constitute a burden in that they are at lower or similar risk of death than U.S.-born youth."
mesh_terms: D000569:Americas; D002140:California; D003469:Culture; D003710:Demography; D019049:Developed Countries; D004641:Emigration and Immigration; D005006:Ethnicity; D009026:Mortality; D009656:North America; D011153:Population; D011154:Population Characteristics; D011157:Population Dynamics; D014171:Transients and Migrants; D014481:United States
keywords: Americas; California; Cultural Background; Demographic Factors; Developed Countries; Differential Mortality; Ethnic Groups; Immigrants; Migrants; Migration; Mortality; North America; Northern America; Population; Population Characteristics; Population Dynamics; United States