All Outputs (5)

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)
Journal Article
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)
Journal Article

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)
Journal Article
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.