The Immigrant Mortality Advantage Among Over-65 Middle Eastern and North African Immigrants to the United States.

ABSTRACT: Immigrants to the United States often have longer life expectancies than their U.S.-born counterparts, however it is unclear whether a similar "immigrant advantage" exists for immigrants from the Middle East and North Africa (MENA). This study uses a novel machine-learning name classifier to offer one of the first national-level examinations of MENA mortality patterns by nativity in the United States. A recurrent neural network model was developed to identify MENA individuals based on given name and surname characteristics. The model was trained on more than 2.5 million mortality-linked social security records in the Berkeley Unified Numident Mortality Database (BUNMD). Mortality rates and life expectancy were estimated using a Gompertz distribution and maximum likelihood estimation, focus

SUBMITTER: Bakhtiari E 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11607005 | biostudies-literature | 2024 Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature