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Handbook of Immigrant Health

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For over 30 years, health policy makers, administrators, and consumers have voiced concern about access to health care and have exhaustively described the need for system reorganization and improvement. Innumerable programs have been funded, implemented, and evaluated. Most of these programs were intended to improve access to care for vulnerable populations.

The anxious questions of yesterday’s immigrants on Ellis Island and the anguished screams of today’s newcomers at Guantanamo Bay suggest an all too familiar continuity. The double helix of health and fear remains encoded in American Society and culture, reappearing in patterns fresh but familiar.

Alan Kraut (1994), Silent Travelers: Germs, Genes and the “Immigrant Menace” (p. 9)

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    Sana Loue

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Riedel, R.L. (1998). Access to Health Care. In: Loue, S. (eds) Handbook of Immigrant Health. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4899-1936-6_6

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