Immigrants And Health

This research paper contains articles all concerning immigration and their health. More specifically how hard it is for new immigrants with lower socio-economic status in U.S and the Canada to access proper health care on a day to day life. This is becoming a big issue because of the recent unfortunate or unlucky events surrounding the Syrian refugees who living within their own nation. Unfortunately, more immigrants can’t gain the health care they could access to survive and make their healthy life because of the high cost needed to manage the proper amount of medical or medication support needed and according to little some of these articles there might be a lot of discrimination involved because of their less and low-income as well. The
In the news article, there was an analyzation of population-based data on 3505 Canadian and 5183 US adults from the Joint US/Canada Survey of Health. “Gender, race, income, age and immigrant status, quality of care, access to care, and satisfaction with care” (Lasser, 2008) were all factors in these surveys. The results were that immigrants in the Unites States were less likely to have a regular doctor, more likely to forgo needed medicines and more likely to have unmet health needs. United States residents are less able to access care than are Canadians and especially immigrants because of high price cost for health care. Universal coverage in Canada seems to benefit both Immigrants and Canadian residents. Vital for health as it shows the similarities and differences between health in the United States and the Canada along with the importance of giving immigrants the same equality of health benefits
Given that immigrants perform a huge portion of Canadian population growth, their health or healthcare status is of particular and special concern to program official, policy makers and researchers, “By using a data from the Longitudinal Survey of Immigrants to Canada, people look at the dynamic evolves in the health status of new immigrants in their initial and basic 4 years in Canada” (Zhao, 2010). The people with greater socio-economic status are more likely to be normally healthy living life, while refugees from other nations are more likely to rate their health status as poor or fair. There are networks between health status and friendship relations of recent immigrants. The ethnic diversity of friendship networks is positively associated with immigrants’ self-rated overall health status in the