Does selective migration alter socioeconomic inequalities in mortality in Wales? : a record-linked total population e-cohort study

Funding for this work was received from Public Health Wales NHS Trust as part of a report on migration and health. Support for the report was also received from the National Centre for Population Health and Wellbeing Research (NCPHWR). Andrea Gartner is funded through the NCPHWR and David Fone, Shantini Paranjothy and Daniel Farewell are members of the NCPHWR team in Cardiff University, School of Medicine. Neither funder bears any responsibility for the analysis or interpretation of the data presented here. We used data from the CHALICE project, which was originally funded by the National Institute for Health Research Public Health Research (NIHR PHR) Programme (project number 09/3007/02). The views and opinions expressed therein are those of the authors and do not necessarily reflect those of the NIHR PHR Programme or the Department of Health. We would like to thank Jenny Morgan for her work on data cleaning and validation of the original dataset.Peer reviewedPublisher PD