Please enable JavaScript.
Coggle requires JavaScript to display documents.
Mind Map #5: Reading #1 Moving Beyond Salmon Bias - Coggle Diagram
Mind Map #5: Reading #1
Moving Beyond Salmon Bias
"Despite having lower levels of education and limited access to healthcare services, Mexican immigrants report better health outcomes than U.S.-born individuals."
"Research suggests that the Mexican health advantage may be partially attributable to selective return migration among less healthy mi-grants—often referred to as“salmon bias.”
purpose of the article: to assess whether unhealthy migrants are disproportionately represented among those who return.
Results provide that limited health access some indication that limited health care access increases the likelihood to return among the least healthy.
Foreign-born Hispanics who reside in the United States report lower rates of smoking and alcohol use and are less likely to be overweight than their native born counter parts.
Why?
Could this be because of culture norms that were taught in Mexico?
Healthy immigrant hypothesis
"Immigrants exhibit better health than those who remain in their country of origin."
Salmon Bias hypothesis
The apparent Hispanic health advantage arises from selective return migration when those who are comparably less healthy return to their country of origin.
This phenomenon may result from a distinctive migration flow in which migrants return to their sending country upon falling ill—possibly to reside with family members or obtain health services.
"Scholars investigating the mortality advantage among Hispanic immigrants have found evidence for both the healthy migrant and salmon bias hypothesis."
Salmon Bias tends to be more influential.
Mexican immigrants living in the United States are less likely to visit a physician than native-born Mexicans or whites
Family reunification could also be a significant driver of return migration with direct links to health.
The manifestation of chronic conditions, such as hypertension or work-related injuries, limits the number of hours that one is able to work.
The barriers to health care may increase the probability of return migration.
Migrants who have been uninsured in the past year are more likely to engage in medical returns.