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Moving to become healthier?
Seppo KoskinenEdvard JohanssonPetri Böckermansubject
Health (social science)alueelliset erotmigrationArticlekoettu terveys03 medical and health sciences0302 clinical medicineself-reported healthterveysvaikutukset030212 general & internal medicinelcsh:Social sciences (General)Migration030505 public healthlcsh:Public aspects of medicineHealth PolicymaassamuuttoPlace effectsPublic Health Environmental and Occupational Healthplace effectslcsh:RA1-1270muuttoliikeGeographylcsh:H1-99Self-reported health0305 other medical scienceRegional differencesDemographydescription
This paper examines individuals’ health and whether it improves when individuals move from a region with poorer health on average to a region with better health on average. We used data from Finland, which is a country with large regional differences in health behaviours and outcomes. We found no evidence that moving from a less healthy region to a healthier region would have any significant effect on the health of individuals who move compared with the health of other individuals. We also examined the potential heterogeneity in the analysed relationships. We found evidence of a relationship between moving itself and health improvements, but this generally true only for our subsample of individuals who had only average or poorer health before moving.
| year | journal | country | edition | language |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2020-04-01 |