Urban-rural variations in health in the Netherlands: does selective migration play a part?

摘要

Conclusions-Areas that attract many migrants form and lose few migrants to other degrees of urbanicity will in the long run obtain healthier populations, because of demographic and socioeconomic char- acteristics. However, if these characteris- tics are accounted for, the opposite is true, with the exception of younger age groups. In extreme cases this may cause spurious Findings in cross sectional research into The relation between urbanicity and Health. Absolute numbers of migrants Need to be very high, however, to make This noticeable at the aggregate level.