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> Asian Americans have slightly lower health insurance access than whites, but live longer than Asians in rich Asian countries with universal healthcare This i
by shard 5y ago
> Asian Americans have slightly lower health insurance access than whites, but live longer than Asians in rich Asian countries with universal healthcare
This is contrary to what I recall reading previously, so I looked up some sources. One study says: “When people come to the United States, they are positively selected, so people coming here are usually younger and healthier,” Baluran said. “What researchers found is that the longer people [immigrants] stay in the U.S., their health begins to deteriorate; by the time [they] reach the second and third generation, the health advantage that immigrants have almost disappeared.”
https://asamnews.com/2021/12/23/immigrants-asians-live-healthier-lives-than-those-asians-in-the-country-longer/ https://asamnews.com/2021/12/23/immigrants-asians-live-healt...
- random314 5y agoFundamentally, the original post is simply cherry picking data. Once you cherry pick, you can arrive at whatever conclusion you like. For example, the data distortion caused by having younger asians in the United states is an example of Simpson's paradox. These can be eliminated using survival analysis https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Survival_analysis https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Survival_analysis
- oli5679 5y agoI'm posting the entire distribution and describing two data points because the post would have been very long if I described every country. My aim isn't to cherry pick but simply to describe the distribution of outcomes we currently observe.