A new study from the University of Toronto has found that that COVID-19-related health concerns are more prevalent among marginalized people who are migrants to Canada.
Mar 10, 2022
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In the early 20th century, researchers in Massachusetts studied the first community-based health intervention in the world, the Framingham Health and Tuberculosis Demonstration, deeming it highly successful in controlling ...
Jun 26, 2019
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Since the Affordable Care act was implemented in 2010, the percentage of uninsured adults in the U.S. has declined significantly. Despite this progress, over 28 million people remain uninsured, 21 percent of whom are non-citizens, ...
Mar 12, 2019
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Unauthorized immigrants who receive liver transplants in the United States have comparable three-year survival rates to U.S. citizens, according to a study by researchers at UC San Francisco. Yet access to life-saving organs ...
Sep 20, 2019
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In demographic and health research, the Hispanic population is often treated as a homogeneous block despite notable differences in race, national origin, immigration status and other factors across the group. However, treating ...
Aug 14, 2021
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More than 80 percent of immigrants residing in the U.S. without authorization near the California-Mexico border have a lifetime history of traumatic events, according to a new study from a psychologist at Rice University. ...
Nov 7, 2017
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Men who are recent immigrants and over qualified for their jobs are more than three times as likely to sustain an injury at work as their appropriately qualified peers who have been in the country for some time, suggests ...
Jul 9, 2012
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Although everyone has been affected by COVID-19 and the pandemic it spawned, not all populations have been affected equally. In the United States, for example, COVID-19 cases and death rates have been disproportionately high ...
May 26, 2022
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A survey of uninsured patients at a large free medical clinic in South Florida identified barriers to skin cancer prevention in minority and immigrant populations, including a lack of knowledge, the belief that dark skin ...
Sep 15, 2016
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Despite a leveling off of the COVID spike in Los Angeles in recent weeks, the city's death toll continues to rise. It's left people around Southern California and the rest of the country asking the same question: Why does ...
Feb 18, 2021
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