Acculturation or unequal assimilation? Smoking during pregnancy and duration of residence among migrants in Sweden.

ABSTRACT: A growing corpus of evidence reveals that smoking patterns of migrant women tend to converge with that of the host population over time ('acculturation paradox'). In this paper we aim to adopt a health equity perspective by studying the extent to which this pattern reflects a convergence with the group of natives who are more socioeconomically disadvantaged. Using population-based registers, we study 1,194,296 women who gave birth in Sweden between 1991 and 2012. Using logistic regression, we estimated odds ratios to assess the effect of duration of residence on the association between smoking during pregnancy and women's origin (classified according to inequality-adjusted Human Development Index (iHDI) of the country of birth). Sibling information and multilevel models were used to assess

SUBMITTER: Klofvermark J 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6543261 | biostudies-literature | 2019 Aug

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature