• Susana Monge, Elena Ronda, Mariona Pons-Vigués, Carmen Vives Cases, Davide Malmusi, and Diana Gil-González.
• Grupo de Trabajo de la Sociedad Española de Epidemiología sobre Determinantes Sociales de la Salud, Iniciativa de Inmigración, España; CIBER de Epidemiología y Salud Pública (CIBERESP), España; Universidad de Alcalá, Alcalá de Henares, Madrid, España. Electronic address: susana.monge@uah.es.
• Gac Sanit. 2015 Nov 1; 29 (6): 461-3.

AbstractOur objective was to describe the methodological limitations and recommendations identified by authors of original articles on immigration and health in Spain. A literature review was conducted of original articles published in Spanish or English between 1998 and 2012 combining keywords on immigration and health. A total of 311 articles were included; of these, 176 (56.6%) mentioned limitations, and 15 (4.8%) made recommendations. The most frequently mentioned limitations included the following: reduced sample sizes; internal validity and sample representativeness issues, with under- or overrepresentation of specific groups; problems of validity of the collected information and missing data mostly related to measurement tools; and absence of key variables for adjustment or stratification. Based on these results, a series of recommendations are proposed to minimise common limitations and advance the quality of scientific production on immigration and health in our setting. Copyright © 2015 SESPAS. Published by Elsevier Espana. All rights reserved.

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