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Showing 1 to 19 of 19 for “"immigrant health"”.
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Social Relationships and Immigrant Health: Structural and Temporal Perspectives
… of research have paid extensive attention to the health outcomes of immigrants and the implications of their social relationships. Scholars have yet to fully appreciate, however, how immigrants' personal relationships are fundamentally shaped by the structural conditions that encompass their lived …
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Examining The Longitudinal Impact Of Assets And Income On Immigrant Health Behaviors
… the effects of culture and acculturation on the health behaviors of the foreign born. Drawing from the behavioral model of health service utilization for vulnerable populations: Gelberg, Andersen, & Leake, 2000), the assets effects model: Schreiner & Sherraden, 2007; Sherraden, 1991), and …
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Understanding African Immigrant Health in the United States: An Exploratory Study of the Nigerian Immigrant Healthcare Experience
… States, there is very little knowledge about the health of African immigrants. Although their population exceeds 2 million and still on the rise exponentially, a big gap exists regarding knowledge about health care access and outcomes for this population. Before relocating to the US, many African …
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Yo Aquí y Vos Allá: Community, Support, and Well-Being Among Immigrants from Central America
This project centers the lived experiences of immigrants from Central America and their social connections after immigrating to the United States. Amid the current “immigrant crisis” at the southern border, this investigation will contribute to our understanding of strengths-based, culturally …
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Emotion Meaning-Making: Identity, Discourse And Social Interaction Among Arab Immigrant Healthcare Providers
… and social life by exploring how a group of Arab immigrant health care providers, involved in the diagnosis and treatment of mental illness in one clinic in the United States, assign meaning to emotion. Affectively charged and fluid, often involving conditions of disruption and dislocation, the …
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How Do Immigrant Older Adults in the United States Fare in Later Life? Examining Differences in Immigrant Status and Life-course Timing of Migration on Late-life Disablement and Mortality
<p>This dissertation focuses on immigrant older adults in the United States and their experiences with late-life disablement. Specifically, this dissertation examines immigrant status differences in late-life disability among immigrants compared to non-immigrants and investigates how life-course …
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The Association of Age at Immigration with Endorsing Feeling Depressed Among Immigrant Adults in the US
Background: Evidence for immigrant health is mixed and may partially be explained by underreporting or underdiagnosis of depression symptoms. Acculturation, the process of assimilating to a cultural environment, may impact depression symptom recognition and reporting through various mechanisms, …
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Exploring perceptions, barriers, and facilitators of access to primary health services among African immigrant women in the U.S. : a study of Ethiopian immigrant women
Access to healthcare services remains a top public health concern in the United States and immigrants are disproportionately affected by low rates of health insurance coverage and poor access to healthcare services. It is reported that 23 percent of lawfully present immigrants and 45 percent of …
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Middle Eastern voluntary immigrant parents' experiences of child healthcare services in Northern Ireland: a qualitative study
… show that 3.1 million visas were issued to immigrants for various purposes including study, work, family unification and a range of other reasons (Migration Statistics, 2020). Against this background, there has been limited study of voluntary immigrant parents’ experiences of child …
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Influences of maternal acculturation on early childhood obesity risk: From countries to chromosomes
… to the US culture has been linked to an ‘immigrant health advantage’ for foreign-born, and less acculturated Hispanic/ Latinos, and increases in obesity prevalence for the more acculturated counterparts. Modern forms of globalization have led to modern forms of communications facilitating …
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Exploring cultural perspectives of physical activity among transnational African immigrants
… African-born population represent fastest rising immigrant group in the US since the 2000s. Transnational African Immigrants (TAIs) are a subset of African immigrants with a unique ability to sustain multi-national ties. African Americans (AAs) and African Immigrants possess two distinct …
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Immigrant Risk, Self-Discontinuity, and the Role of Nostalgia
… There are conflicting theories and data about immigrants’ health in the host country (e.g., immigrant risk vs. paradox), which have encouraged researchers to examine more nuanced factors related to immigration to clarify these inconsistencies. This two-part study aimed to shed light on these …
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The Experience of Elderly Immigrants of Mexican Origin with Life-Limiting Illness: A Critical Ethnography
… There is a disparity in access and use of health services among immigrant elders (Lowman et al., 2008; Lum & Vanderaa, 2010). The purpose of this qualitative study was to describe and explain the health care experiences of elderly immigrants of Mexican origin who face life-limiting illness …
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Negotiating and Constructing Place: African Immigrant and Refugee Women’s Experiences Seeking Reproductive Health Information, Services and Support
African immigrant women and refugee women face disproportionate reproductive health risks and adverse outcomes compared with the Canadian population. The diversity of African women and complexity of the migration process suggest the need for contextualized knowledge to better understand these …
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Three Essays On Diabetes And Mortality In The United States
… faces an emerging deadly threat on people’s health and nations’ public-health systems with a large economic burden. According to the World Health Organization (WHO), the number of people living with diabetes has risen from 108 million in 1980 to 422 million in 2014 (WHO, 2016). In the United …
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The dietary acculturation process in newly immigrated Chinese mothers with dependent children
… generally a more developed or modern one, immigrants have a better health profile than the counterpart native population, i.e., the “healthy immigrant effect.” After arrival, the overall mortality rate and the prevalence of disease risk factors among immigrants increase with their duration …
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Health and wellbeing geographies of female domestic workers: Understanding space-time constraints and access to health-promoting places and social networks
Submission published under a 24 month embargo labeled 'U of I Access', the embargo will last until 2024-08-01