Immigrant Essay Plan Flashcards
- Overall Introduction
Define: “Vulnerable populations are at risk of poor physical, psychological, and/or social health” (Adday, 1994).
Mental, physical, emotional, and social health are all integral to and interact toward the total experience of health (World Health Organization, 1948).
Introduce: LGBT and Immigrants
- Immigrant Introduction
Immigrant- a ‘person living in a country other than where they were born’ (United Nations, 2015).
Despite importance…
87 million in 1975 (United Nations, 2006) to 258 million immigrants in 2017 – mainly to Europe, North America and Oceania (United Nations, 2017).
(Garret, 2006) revitalise communities (undesirable jobs)
(Welcome Dayton, 2006) Often start small businesses
- Overall Health
Established = Better
First five years, are more likely to experience difficulties when accessing healthcare and other human services compared to native-born residents
Canada, immigrants must wait three months before being covered by a provincial health plan (Asanin and Wilson, 2008).
(Statistics Canada, 2001) 250 K/ year = ⅔ of pop growth
BMI facts
Poverty goes down
(Asanin and Wilson, 2008)- 9 years looking for a doctor
Language, cost, location, tranportation
Forced (Stevens, 2007), Unforced (National Immigrant Forum, 2010), Either way (Oliver, 2016)
- Socioeconomic background
In the USA, one-third of all immigrants live in families in which the head of the household lacks a high school education (Rector, 2006), meaning they often have a very limited English proficiency (Derose, 2007) and as such 39% of immigrants are in low-income jobs (Fortuny, Chaudry 2011).
USA- One-third of all immigrants live in families in which the head of the household lacks a high school education (Rector, 2006)
Limited English proficiency (Derose, 2007)
39% of immigrants are in low-income jobs (Fortuny, Chaudry 2011)
- Can be good can be bad examples
Hutu Rwandans
(Gonzalez de Gisbert, 2015) Latino paradox
(Roberts et al, 2017) Tokelauan
(Krishnan, 2012) UK Indians
