title: Self-perceived health among Eastern European immigrants over 50 living in Western Europe.
abstract: OBJECTIVE
  This paper examines whether Eastern European immigrants aged 50 and over living in Northern and Western Europe face a health disadvantage in terms of self-perceived health, with respect to the native-born. We also examined health changes over time (2004-2006-2010) through the probabilities of transition among self-perceived health states, and how they vary according to nativity status and age group.
  
  
  METHODS
  Data were obtained from the Survey of Health, Ageing and Retirement in Europe (SHARE). Logistic regressions and probabilities of transition were used.
  
  
  RESULTS
  Results emphasise the health disadvantage of Eastern European immigrants living in Germany, France and  Sweden with respect to the native-born, even after controlling for socio-economic status. Probabilities of transition also evidenced that people born in Eastern Europe were more likely to experience worsening health and less likely to recover from sickness.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  This paper suggests that health inequalities do not affect immigrant groups in equal measure and confirm the poorer and more steeply deteriorating health status of Eastern European immigrants.
authors.affiliation: University of Perugia, Perugia, Italy, dlanari@stat.unipg.it.
authors.forename: D
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Lanari
authors.forename: O
authors.initials: O
authors.lastname: Bussini
authors.forename: L
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Minelli
mesh_terms: D000368:Aged; D000369:Aged, 80 and over; D015331:Cohort Studies; D003467:Cultural Deprivation; D054242:Emigrants and Immigrants / Q000706:statistics & numerical data*; D005061:Europe, Eastern / Q000208:ethnology; D005260:Female; D005602:France / Q000453:epidemiology; D005858:Germany / Q000453:epidemiology; D054624:Health Status Disparities; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D057566:Self Report; D012959:Socioeconomic Factors; D013548:Sweden / Q000453:epidemiology; D035862:Vulnerable Populations / Q000208:ethnology* / Q000706:statistics & numerical data*