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082			_a362.1086912 _bPAT-H
100			_aPatricia, Illingworth
100			_aWendy, Parmet, E.
245			_aHealth of New Comers _b: Immigration, Health Policy and The Case for Global Solidarity
260			_bNew York Univeristy Press _c2017 _aNew York
300			_aix, 295p
504			_aInclude Bibliography and Index
520			_aImmigration 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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650			_aSocial Problem _vEmigration and immigration _vImmigrants--Medical care _vGovernment policy _zUnited States
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