Developmental disorders among Norwegian-born children with immigrant parents.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Risk of being diagnosed with different developmental disorders is found to vary with immigrant background. Knowledge about such differences in Norway are a starting point for equity in health services quality, and for early identification and prevention. Our objective was to assess the risk of receiving diagnoses of developmental disorders among children born in Norway (2006-2017) to two or one immigrant parent compared to children with two Norwegian-born parents.

Methods

Information on developmental disorders was from the Norwegian Patient Register (NPR) and information on immigrant background, parental country of origin, parental education, and household income from Statistics Norway. We estimated hazard ratios (HR) with Cox proportional hazard regressions. With

SUBMITTER: Tm H 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9825022 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Jan

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature