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Against the grain: International migrants, the children of migrants and national life expectancy in Sweden, 1990–2019 (2024)
Journal Article
Wallace, M., & Drefahl, S. (2024). Against the grain: International migrants, the children of migrants and national life expectancy in Sweden, 1990–2019. SSM - Population Health, 28, 101726. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ssmph.2024.101726

International migrants and their children represent increasing shares of the populations of major host countries and have growing potential to affect estimates of national mortality. Yet, while many studies have observed mortality d... Read More about Against the grain: International migrants, the children of migrants and national life expectancy in Sweden, 1990–2019.

Understanding the Intergenerational Impact of Migration: An Adult Mortality Advantage for the Children of Forced Migrants? (2024)
Journal Article
Wilson, B., Wallace, M., & Saarela, J. (2024). Understanding the Intergenerational Impact of Migration: An Adult Mortality Advantage for the Children of Forced Migrants?. Epidemiology, 35(5), 589-596. https://doi.org/10.1097/ede.0000000000001763

Background: Children of immigrants often have excess mortality rates, in contrast to the low mortality typically exhibited by their parents’ generation. However, prior research has studied children of immigrants who were selected for migration, ther... Read More about Understanding the Intergenerational Impact of Migration: An Adult Mortality Advantage for the Children of Forced Migrants?.

Childhood socioeconomic background and elevated mortality among the young adult second generation in Sweden: a population-based cohort study (2024)
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Wallace, M., Mussino, E., Aradhya, S., Harber-Aschan, L., & Wilson, B. (2024). Childhood socioeconomic background and elevated mortality among the young adult second generation in Sweden: a population-based cohort study. BMJ Public Health, 2(1), e000643. https://doi.org/10.1136/bmjph-2023-000643

Introduction The native-born children of migrants represent one of the fastest-growing and most diverse young populations in the world today. A growing body of research highlights an elevated young adult mortality risk in this ‘second generation’ (G2... Read More about Childhood socioeconomic background and elevated mortality among the young adult second generation in Sweden: a population-based cohort study.

COVID-19 mortality among immigrants by duration of residence in Sweden: a population-based cohort study (2024)
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Juárez, S. P., Debiasi, E., Wallace, M., Drefahl, S., Mussino, E., Cederström, A., …Aradhya, S. (2024). COVID-19 mortality among immigrants by duration of residence in Sweden: a population-based cohort study. Scandinavian Journal of Public Health, 52(3), 370-378. https://doi.org/10.1177/14034948241244560

Background: Explanations for the disproportional COVID-19 burden among immigrants relative to host-country natives include differential exposure to the virus and susceptibility due to poor health conditions. Prior to the pandemic, immigrants displaye... Read More about COVID-19 mortality among immigrants by duration of residence in Sweden: a population-based cohort study.

Lives saved, lives lost, and under-reported COVID-19 deaths: Excess and non-excess mortality in relation to cause-specific mortality during the first year of the COVID-19 pandemic in Sweden (2024)
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Mussino, E., Drefahl, S., Wallace, M., Billingsley, S., Aradhya, S., & Andersson, G. (in press). Lives saved, lives lost, and under-reported COVID-19 deaths: Excess and non-excess mortality in relation to cause-specific mortality during the first year of the COVID-19 pandemic in Sweden. #Journal not on list, 50, 1-40. https://doi.org/10.4054/demres.2024.50.1

Background: The number of confirmed COVID-19 deaths differed across countries and across waves of the pandemic. Patterns also differed between groups within a country.

Objective: We combine data on excess mortality with data on cause-of-death-spe... Read More about Lives saved, lives lost, and under-reported COVID-19 deaths: Excess and non-excess mortality in relation to cause-specific mortality during the first year of the COVID-19 pandemic in Sweden.

Elevated mortality among the second-generation (children of migrants) in Europe: what is going wrong? A review (2023)
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Wallace, M., Hiam, L., & Aldridge, R. (2023). Elevated mortality among the second-generation (children of migrants) in Europe: what is going wrong? A review. British Medical Bulletin, 148(1), 5-21. https://doi.org/10.1093/bmb/ldad027

Introduction

The ‘second-generation’ (i.e. the children of migrants) represent one of the fastest growing subpopulations of the child and young adult populations in Europe today. The research so far appears to indicate that their mortality risk is... Read More about Elevated mortality among the second-generation (children of migrants) in Europe: what is going wrong? A review.

Inequalities in COVID-19 severe morbidity and mortality by country of birth in Sweden (2023)
Journal Article
Rostila, M., Cederström, A., Wallace, M., Aradhya, S., Ahrne, M., & P. Juárez, S. (2023). Inequalities in COVID-19 severe morbidity and mortality by country of birth in Sweden. Nature Communications, 14(4919), https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-023-40568-4

Migrants have been more affected by the COVID-19 pandemic. Whether this has varied over the course of the pandemic remains unknown. We examined how inequalities in intensive care unit (ICU) admission and death related to COVID-19 by country of birth... Read More about Inequalities in COVID-19 severe morbidity and mortality by country of birth in Sweden.

Social inequalities experienced by children of immigrants across multiple domains of life: a case study of the Windrush in England and Wales (2022)
Journal Article
Wallace, M., Wilson, B., & Darlington-Pollock, F. (2022). Social inequalities experienced by children of immigrants across multiple domains of life: a case study of the Windrush in England and Wales. Comparative Migration Studies, 10(18), https://doi.org/10.1186/s40878-022-00293-1

It is well known that children of immigrants experience inequality. Less is known about
how inequalities compare across multiple life domains and multiple generations.
We conduct a case study of England and Wales, focussing on children of Caribbean... Read More about Social inequalities experienced by children of immigrants across multiple domains of life: a case study of the Windrush in England and Wales.

Excess mortality and COVID-19 in Sweden in 2020: A demographic account (2022)
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Kolk, M., Drefahl, S., Wallace, M., & Andersson, G. (2022). Excess mortality and COVID-19 in Sweden in 2020: A demographic account. Vienna Yearbook of Population Research, 20, 317-348. https://doi.org/10.1553/populationyearbook2022.res2.2

In this study, we provide an account of mortality levels in Sweden in 2020, focusing on both excess mortality and mortality due to COVID-19 deaths.We present various measures of life expectancy for women and men based on age-specific death rates in 2... Read More about Excess mortality and COVID-19 in Sweden in 2020: A demographic account.

Immigration, mortality, and national life expectancy in the Nordic region, 1990–2019 (2022)
Journal Article
Wallace, M., J. Thomas, M., Manuel Aburto, J., Vera Jørring Pallesen, A., Hvas Mortensen, L., Syse, A., & Drefahl, S. (2022). Immigration, mortality, and national life expectancy in the Nordic region, 1990–2019. #Journal not on list, 19, Article 101177. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ssmph.2022.101177

Highlights

• Immigrants have higher life expectancy at age 1 than the native-born in Denmark, Finland and Norway do from 1990 to 2019.
• Immigrants in Denmark, Finland and Norway increasingly enhance national life expectancy at age 1 over... Read More about Immigration, mortality, and national life expectancy in the Nordic region, 1990–2019.

What can the UK learn from the impact of migrant populations on national life expectancy? (2022)
Journal Article
Hiam, L., Zhang, C. X., Burns, R., Darlington-Pollock, F., Wallace, M., & McKee, M. (2022). What can the UK learn from the impact of migrant populations on national life expectancy?. Journal of Public Health, 44(4), e499-e505. https://doi.org/10.1093/pubmed/fdac013

Improvements in life expectancy at birth in the UK had stalled prior to 2020 and have fallen during the COVID-19 pandemic. The stagnation took place at a time of relatively high net migration, yet we know that migrants to Australia, the USA and some... Read More about What can the UK learn from the impact of migrant populations on national life expectancy?.

Age variations and population over-coverage: Is low mortality among migrants merely a data artefact? (2022)
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Wallace, M., & Wilson, B. (2022). Age variations and population over-coverage: Is low mortality among migrants merely a data artefact?. Population Studies, 76(1), https://doi.org/10.1080/00324728.2021.1877331

The migrant mortality advantage has been observed extensively, but its authenticity is debated. In particular, concerns persist that the advantage is an artefact of the data, generated by the problems of recording mobility among foreign-born populati... Read More about Age variations and population over-coverage: Is low mortality among migrants merely a data artefact?.

Excess mortality and mortality from covid-19 in Sweden during 2020 (2021)
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Kolk, M., Drefahl, S., Wallace, M., & Andersson, G. (2021). Excess mortality and mortality from covid-19 in Sweden during 2020. he Public Health Agency of Sweden / Folkhälsomyndigheten

The report presents mortality statistics at national and regional level, and also compares them with previous years. The aim of the report is to assess the impact of the pandemic on excess mortality in Sweden through aggregated data. The results show... Read More about Excess mortality and mortality from covid-19 in Sweden during 2020.

Disparities in Coronavirus Disease 2019 Mortality by Country of Birth in Stockholm, Sweden: A Total-Population–Based Cohort Study (2021)
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Rostila, M., Cederström, A., Wallace, M., Brandén, M., Malmberg, B., & Andersson, G. (2021). Disparities in Coronavirus Disease 2019 Mortality by Country of Birth in Stockholm, Sweden: A Total-Population–Based Cohort Study. American Journal of Epidemiology, 190(8), 1510–1518. https://doi.org/10.1093/aje/kwab057

Preliminary evidence points to higher morbidity and mortality from coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) in certain racial and ethnic groups, but population-based studies using microlevel data are lacking so far. We used register-based cohort data incl... Read More about Disparities in Coronavirus Disease 2019 Mortality by Country of Birth in Stockholm, Sweden: A Total-Population–Based Cohort Study.

Infant mortality among native-born children of immigrants in France, 2008–17: results from a socio-demographic panel survey (2020)
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Wallace, M., Khlat, M., & Guillot, M. (2021). Infant mortality among native-born children of immigrants in France, 2008–17: results from a socio-demographic panel survey. European Journal of Public Health, 31(2), 326-333. https://doi.org/10.1093/eurpub/ckaa186

Background
Within Europe, France stands out as a major country that lacks recent and reliable evidence on how infant mortality levels vary among the native-born children of immigrants compared with the native-born children of two parents born in Fra... Read More about Infant mortality among native-born children of immigrants in France, 2008–17: results from a socio-demographic panel survey.

A population-based cohort study of socio-demographic risk factors for COVID-19 deaths in Sweden (2020)
Journal Article
Drefahl, S., Wallace, M., Mussino, E., Aradhya, S., Kolk, M., Brandén, M., …Andersson, G. (2020). A population-based cohort study of socio-demographic risk factors for COVID-19 deaths in Sweden. Nature Communications, 11, Article 5097. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-020-18926-3

As global deaths from COVID-19 continue to rise, the world’s governments, institutions, and agencies are still working toward an understanding of who is most at risk of death. In this study, data on all recorded COVID-19 deaths in Sweden up to May 7,... Read More about A population-based cohort study of socio-demographic risk factors for COVID-19 deaths in Sweden.

Poor health, low mortality? Paradox found among immigrants in England and Wales (2020)
Journal Article
Wallace, M., & Darlington‐Pollock, F. (2022). Poor health, low mortality? Paradox found among immigrants in England and Wales. Population, Space and Place, 28(3), Article e2360. https://doi.org/10.1002/psp.2360

The 'healthy immigrant effect' and 'migrant mortality advantage' describe the better health and lower mortality of international immigrants as compared with the native-born populations of high-income countries. However, a growing body of evidence sug... Read More about Poor health, low mortality? Paradox found among immigrants in England and Wales.

Mortality advantage among migrants according to duration of stay in France, 2004–2014 (2019)
Journal Article
Wallace, M., Khlat, M., & Guillot, M. (2019). Mortality advantage among migrants according to duration of stay in France, 2004–2014. BMC Public Health, 19, Article 327. https://doi.org/10.1186/s12889-019-6652-1

Background: The migrant mortality advantage is generally interpreted as reflecting the selection of atypically healthy individuals from the country of origin followed by the wearing off of selection effects over time, a process theorised to be accele... Read More about Mortality advantage among migrants according to duration of stay in France, 2004–2014.