Cancer incidence and mortality of Surinamese migrants in the Netherlands: in-between Surinamese and Dutch levels?

Purpose: It has been suggested that the cancer risk of migrants from low-income to high-income countries will converge toward the levels of their host country. However, comparisons with country of origin are mostly lacking. We compared cancer incidence and mortality rates of Surinamese migrants in the Netherlands to both native Dutch and Surinamese levels.

Sharp upturn of life expectancy in the Netherlands: effect of more health care for the elderly?

During the 1980s and 1990s life expectancy at birth has risen only slowly in the Netherlands. In 2002, however, the rise in life expectancy suddenly accelerated. We studied the possible causes of this remarkable development.

[Life expectancy increasing, but gap between people of higher and lower educational level remains].

Objective: To determine if since 1997 there has been a change in the gap in life expectancy between those of higher and lower educational level.

Design: Statistical analysis of register and survey data.

Method: Linkage of data from municipal population registers and the Labour Force Survey of Statistics Netherlands.

Duration of residence was not consistently related to immigrant mortality.

Objective: This paper aimed to examine immigrant mortality according to duration of residence in the Netherlands and to compare duration-specific mortality levels to levels of mortality in the native Dutch population.

Study Design And Setting: For the years 1995-2000, we linked the national cause of death register, that contains information on deaths of legal residents, to the municipal population register, that contains information on all legal residents. We studied mortality in relation to period of immigration by means of directly standardized mortality rates and Poisson regression.

Socioeconomic inequalities in mortality within ethnic groups in the Netherlands, 1995-2000.

Study Objective: To analyse socioeconomic inequalities in mortality in Dutch, Turkish, Moroccans, Surinamese, and Antillean/Aruban men and women living in the Netherlands and to assess the contribution of specific causes of death to these inequalities.

Design: Open cohort design using data from the Municipal Population Registers and cause of death registry.

Setting: the Netherlands from 1995 through 2000.

Ethnic inequalities in age- and cause-specific mortality in The Netherlands.

Background: By describing ethnic differences in age- and cause-specific mortality in The Netherlands we aim to identify factors that determine whether ethnic minority groups have higher or lower mortality than the native population of the host country.

Methods: We used data for 1995-2000 from the municipal population registers and cause of death registry. All inhabitants of The Netherlands were included in the study.