Handbook of Immigrant Health

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This cross-disciplinary work examines the current health situation of US immigrants, integrating the literature of diverse fields - epidemiology, health services research, anthropology, law, medicine, social work, health promotion, and bioethics - to explore the diversity of the immigrant population from a culturally-sensitive perspective. This 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 offers insights for the future.