Health of New Comers (Record no. 26244)

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020 ## - INTERNATIONAL STANDARD BOOK NUMBER
ISBN 9780814789216
082 ## - DEWEY DECIMAL CLASSIFICATION NUMBER
Classification number 362.1086912
Item number PAT-H
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Personal name Patricia, Illingworth
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Personal name Wendy, Parmet, E.
245 ## - TITLE STATEMENT
Title Health of New Comers
Sub Title : Immigration, Health Policy and The Case for Global Solidarity
260 ## - PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, ETC. (IMPRINT)
Name of publisher New York Univeristy Press
Year of publication 2017
Place of publication New York
300 ## - PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION
Number of Pages ix, 295p
504 ## - BIBLIOGRAPHY, ETC. NOTE
Bibliography, etc Include Bibliography and Index<br/>
520 ## - SUMMARY, ETC.
Summary, etc Immigration and health care are hotly debated and contentious issues. Policies that relate to both issues—to the health of newcomers—often reflect misimpressions about immigrants and their impact on health care systems. Despite the fact that immigrants are typically younger and healthier than natives, and that many immigrants play a vital role as caregivers in their new lands, native citizens are often reluctant to extend basic health care to immigrants, choosing instead to let them suffer, to let them die prematurely, or to expedite their return to their home lands. Likewise, many nations turn against immigrants when epidemics such as Ebola strike, under the false belief that native populations can be kept well only if immigrants are kept out. In The Health of Newcomers, Patricia Illingworth and Wendy E. Parmet demonstrate how shortsighted and dangerous it is to craft health policy on the basis of ethnocentrism and xenophobia. Because health is a global public good and people benefit from the health of neighbour and stranger alike, it is in everyone’s interest to ensure the health of all. Drawing on rigorous legal and ethical arguments and empirical studies, as well as deeply personal stories of immigrant struggles, Illingworth and Parmet make the compelling case that global phenomena such as poverty, the medical brain drain, organ tourism, and climate change ought to inform the health policy we craft for newcomers and natives alike.
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Topical Term Social Problem
Form subdivision Emigration and immigration
-- Immigrants--Medical care
-- Government policy
Geographic subdivision United States
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        NASSDOC Library NASSDOC Library 2020-07-08 OP 2472.62 2020-06-11 362.1086912 PAT-H 51001 3387.15 2020-07-15 Books