A population-based retrospective study comparing cancer mortality between Moluccan migrants and the general Dutch population: equal risk 65 years after immigration?

ABSTRACT:

Objective

To test the hypothesis that cancer mortality rates among the Moluccan-Dutch, the oldest non-Western migrant group to arrive in the Netherlands after the Second World War, are similar to those in the general Dutch population.

Design

Population-based retrospective study.

Setting

Data from the national cause of death registry in the Netherlands and municipal registries.

Participants

Using historic records containing family names of all Moluccan-Dutch who arrived in the Netherlands in 1951, we identified 81 591 Moluccan-Dutch persons in the national cause of death registry of the Netherlands. The reference group consisted of 15 866 538 persons of the general Dutch population.

Outcome measures

Mortality data were linked to demographic data from muni

SUBMITTER: van der Wal JM 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6701674 | biostudies-literature | 2019 Aug

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature