Poor Self-reported Health and Sleeping Difficulties among Kurdish Immigrant Men in Sweden:

作者: Marina Taloyan , Leena Maria Johansson , Sven-Erik Johansson , Jan Sundquist , Tahire O. Koctürk

DOI: 10.1177/1363461506066988

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摘要: This study explores the association between ethnicity and poor self-reported health psychological distress, sleeping difficulties, use of psychotropic drugs among immigrant Kurdish men native Swedish men, based on data from first National Survey Immigrants Level-of-Living Surveys collected in 1996 by Statistics Sweden. The age-adjusted odds difficulties was about 3.5 times higher than men. ratio decreased to 2.1 2.7 respectively a model adjusted for age other explanatory variables. Yearning home country, perceived discrimination unemployment host country seem be possible explanations levels distress immigrants

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