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5 The Role of Migration
Pages 10-11

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... short-duration female labor migrants or long-duration male labor migrants and noncommunicable diseases. The discussion during this session highlighted several general findings from an analysis of data collected by the International Network for the Demographic Evaluation of Populations and Their Health (INDEPTH)
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... attrition from INDEPTH study populations is not random, which implies that migration affects the results obtained from surveillance-site data. Analysts should therefore consider adjusting for selection bias due to immigration and emigration.
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