Migration, urbanisation and mortality: 5-year longitudinal analysis of the PERU MIGRANT study.

ABSTRACT:

Objective

To compare all-cause and cause-specific mortality among 3 distinct groups: within-country, rural-to-urban migrants, and rural and urban dwellers in a longitudinal cohort in Peru.

Methods

The PERU MIGRANT Study, a longitudinal cohort study, used an age-stratified and sex-stratified random sample of urban dwellers in a shanty town community in the capital city of Peru, rural dwellers in the Andes, and migrants from the Andes to the shanty town community. Participants underwent a questionnaire and anthropomorphic measurements at a baseline evaluation in 2007-2008 and at a follow-up visit in 2012-2013. Mortality was determined by death certificate or family interview.

Results

Of the 989 participants evaluated at baseline, 928 (94%) were evaluated at follow-up (m

SUBMITTER: Burroughs Pena MS 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC4494660 | biostudies-literature | 2015 Jul

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature