Childhood socioeconomic background and elevated mortality among the young adult second generation in Sweden: a population-based cohort study.

ABSTRACT:

Introduction

The native-born children of migrants represent one of the fastest-growing and most diverse young populations in the world today. A growing body of research highlights an elevated young adult mortality risk in this 'second generation' (G2) relative to the majority population at the same ages. Previous studies have tried to understand this increased risk by examining its association with inequality in the adult socioeconomic background (SEB) of the G2. Here, we instead analyse the association of second-generation status with childhood SEB.

Methods

We use administrative register data from Sweden to fit multistate, competing-risk, flexible parametric survival models on a data set of 13 404 deaths in 2.35 million young adults. We examine mortality from all causes and

SUBMITTER: Wallace M 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11812831 | biostudies-literature | 2024 Jun

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature