Health risk behaviours among migrants by duration of residence: protocol for a systematic review and meta-analysis.

ABSTRACT:

Introduction

International migrants' health has often been found to deteriorate in new countries, partly due to changes in health risk behaviours such as alcohol consumption, tobacco use, physical inactivity, and poor dietary habits. However, limited efforts have been made to comprehensively evaluate the extent to which migrants adopt unhealthy risk behaviours with longer duration of residence. This systematic review and meta-analysis will summarise evidence on international migrants' behavioural patterns by duration of residence in multiple country contexts.

Methods and analysis

PubMed/MEDLINE, Web of Science and ProQuest databases will be searched for quantitative or mixed-method observational studies published in peer-reviewed scientific journals between 1 January 2000 an

SUBMITTER: Berg L 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7592271 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Oct

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature