Health and migration Predominant focus of many studies of health of longer term migrant communities is on acculturation and seeking to explain 'healthy migrant' model or 'salmon bias' More recent shift to try and understand structural constraints which limit migrants' better health outcomes More nuanced understandings of term 'migrant' Importance of looking at different stage of migratory process Majority of studies focus on 'destination' stage but implicitly attention given to first few years of settlement or generational status linked to how far cultural change occurred
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