Immigrant Essay Plan

Question 1

1. Overall Introduction

Answer 1

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

Question 2

2. Immigrant Introduction

Answer 2

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

Question 3

3. Overall Health

Answer 3

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)

Question 4

4. Socioeconomic background

Answer 4

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)

Question 5

5. Can be good can be bad examples

Answer 5

Hutu Rwandans
(Gonzalez de Gisbert, 2015) Latino paradox
(Roberts et al, 2017) Tokelauan
(Krishnan, 2012) UK Indians