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Handbook of Immigrant Health

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Editors:
  1. Sana Loue

    1. Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, School of Medicine, Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, USA

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Table of contents (30 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xiii
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  2. United States Immigration

    • Bill Waddell
    Pages 1-17

  3. Defining the Immigrant

    • Sana Loue
    Pages 19-36

  4. Acculturation

    • Lauren Clark, Lisa Hofsess
    Pages 37-59

  5. Medical Interpretation

    • Carey Jackson
    Pages 61-79

  6. Cross-Cultural Use of Measurements

    • Xinhua S. Ren, Benjamin C. Amick III
    Pages 81-99

  7. Access to Health Care

    • Ruth Lyn Riedel
    Pages 101-123

  8. Health Care Seeking Behavior

    • Kathleen Ell, Irma Castañeda
    Pages 125-143

  9. Healing Practices

    • Bonnie B. O’Connor
    Pages 145-162

  10. The Role of the Family and the Community in the Clinical Setting

    • Carol R. Horowitz
    Pages 163-182

  11. Folk Illnesses

    • Roberta D. Baer, Lauren Clark, Caroline Peterson
    Pages 183-202

  12. Ethical Issues in Immigrant Health Care and Clinical Research

    • Patricia A. Marshall, Barbara A. Koenig, Paul Grifhorst, Mirjam van Ewijk
    Pages 203-226

  13. Refugee Health

    • Karen N. Olness
    Pages 227-241

  14. Border Health

    • Linda S. Lloyd
    Pages 243-260

  15. Migrant Health

    • Marie Napolitano, Bruce W. Goldberg
    Pages 261-276

  16. Health and Disease among Hispanics

    • Sylvia Guendelman
    Pages 277-301

  17. Asian Pacific Islander Health

    • Erika Takada, Judy M. Ford, Linda S. Lloyd
    Pages 303-327

  18. African Health

    • Marlene Faust, James C. Spilsbury, Sana Loue
    Pages 329-348

  19. Infectious Diseases

    • Keith B. Armitage, Robert A. Salata
    Pages 349-387

  20. Cancer

    • Nahida H. Gordon
    Pages 389-406
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About this book

Here is the first comprehensive cross-disciplinary work to examine the current health situation of our immigrants, successfully integrating the vast literature of diverse fields -- epidemiology, health services research, anthropology, law, medicine, social work, health promotion, and bioethics -- to explore the richness and diversity of the immigrant population from a culturally-sensitive perspective.
This unequalled resource examines methodological issues, issues in clinical care and research, health and disease in specific immigrant populations, patterns of specific diseases in immigrant groups in the US, and conclusive insight towards the future.
Complete with 73 illustrations, this singular book is the blueprint for where we must go in the future.

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`The Handbook of Immigrant Health has the scope and depth to serve well as either the only book about the topic on one's shelf or as the cornerstone of a large and specialized collection. ... contains a superb set of review articles on the behavioral, social and cultural issues most pertinent to immigrant health. The quality of the contributions is ... excellent. By presenting comprehensive syntheses of the literature, this collection offers valuable information and insights of use to clinicians, researchers, and policy makers.'
The New England Journal of Medicine, 340:12 (1999)
`The quality of the contributions to this book is, with few exceptions, excellent. By presenting comprehensive syntheses of the literature, this collection offers valuable information and insights of use to clinicians, researchers, and policy makers.'
The New England Journal of Medicine, (1999)

Editors and Affiliations

  • Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, School of Medicine, Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, USA

    Sana Loue

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Handbook of Immigrant Health

  • Editors: Sana Loue

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4899-1936-6

  • Publisher: Springer New York, NY

  • eBook Packages: Springer Book Archive

  • Copyright Information: Springer Science+Business Media New York 1998

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-0-306-45959-7Published: 30 September 1998

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-1-4899-1938-0Published: 20 June 2013

  • eBook ISBN: 978-1-4899-1936-6Published: 11 November 2013

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: XIV, 654

  • Topics: Public Health, Epidemiology, Health Promotion and Disease Prevention

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