Significant differences in the use of healthcare resources of native-born and foreign born in Spain

Significant differences in the use of healthcare resources of native-born and foreign born in Spain

BACKGROUND In the last decade, the number of foreign residents in Spain has doubled and it has become one of the countries in the European Union with the highest number of immigrants There is no doubt that the health of the immigrant population has become a relevant subject from the point of view of public healthcare. Our study aimed at describing the potential inequalities in the use of health...

Author's response to reviews Title: Significant differences in the use of helthcare resources of native-born and foreign-born in Spain. Authors: PILAR CARRASCO-GARRIDO ([email protected])

Survival Differences among Native-Born and Foreign-Born Older Adults in the United States

BACKGROUND Studies show that the U.S. foreign-born population has lower mortality than the native-born population before age 65. Until recently, the lack of data prohibited reliable comparisons of U.S. mortality by nativity at older ages. This study provides reliable estimates of U.S. foreign-born and native-born mortality at ages 65 and older at the end of the 20(th) century. Life expectancies...

critical period effects in foreign language learning:the influence of maturational state on the acquisition of reading,writing, and grammar in english as a foreign language

since the 1960s the age effects on learning both first and second language have been explored by many linguists and applied linguists (e.g lennerberg, 1967; schachter, 1996; long, 1990) and the existence of critical period for language acquisition was found to be a common ground of all these studies. in spite of some common findings, some issues about the impacts of age on acquiring a second or...

comparative analysis of the use of hedges & emphatics in english and persian academic research articles of sociology & psychology

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