Educational gradients in five Asian immigrant populations: Do country of origin, duration and generational status moderate the education-health relationship?

ABSTRACT: Education usually shows a relationship with self-rated health such that those with highest education have the best health and those with lowest education have the worst health. We examine these educational gradients among Asian immigrants and whether they differ by country of origin, duration in the United States, and generational status. Migration theories suggest that recent immigrants from poorer countries should show a weaker relationship between education and health than US-born Whites. Acculturation theory further suggests that differences in gradients across country of origin should diminish for longer-term immigrants and the US-born and that these groups should display gradients similar to US-born Whites. We use the March Current Population Survey (2000 - 2010) to examine education

SUBMITTER: Ro A 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC4963251 | biostudies-literature | 2016 Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature