Volume 34 - Article 22 | Pages 615–656
Differences in all-cause mortality: A comparison between immigrants and the host population in Norway 1990-2012
By Astri Syse, Bjorn H. Strand, Oyvind Naess, Ólöf Anna Steingrímsdóttir, Bernadette N. Kumar
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