Health and educational performance among young migrants

Int J Adolesc Med Health. 2013;25(1):13-30. doi: 10.1515/ijamh-2013-0003.

Abstract

This study is a part replication of an earlier study by on health efficacy, educational attainment and well-being among 30 nations. It includes, however, data from these nations, as well as the latest Pisa results and update socioeconomic data and sociological variables which include divorce rate, number of persons/household, employment rates, and measures of physical and mental health (including new scales of well-being, e.g., mental health index, life satisfaction, suicide rates). More importantly, it includes measures of migrant rates among children and adults in each country, the focus of attention of this article. New material on health and educational expenditure are provided.

MeSH terms

  • Adolescent
  • Cross-Cultural Comparison
  • Delivery of Health Care / economics
  • Education / economics
  • Educational Measurement / statistics & numerical data
  • Educational Status
  • Financing, Government*
  • Happiness
  • Health Status*
  • Humans
  • Infant
  • Infant Mortality
  • Intelligence*
  • Language
  • Life Change Events
  • Life Expectancy
  • Mental Health*
  • Personal Satisfaction
  • Suicide / statistics & numerical data
  • Transients and Migrants / education*
  • Transients and Migrants / psychology
  • Transients and Migrants / statistics & numerical data*