S u m m a r y N early 12 million unauthorized immigrants live in the United States. California is home to about 2.7 million of these immigrants, who make up almost 10 percent of the state's labor force. 1 Currently, legislators in Washington, D.C., are considering a comprehensive reform of federal immigration policies that could include the legalization of unauthorized immigrants. Many observer...

To develop satisfactorily, adolescents require good health-related quality of life (QOL, including physical health, psychological health, social relationships and living environment). However, for poorly understood reasons, it is often lacking, especially among immigrants with lower family and socioeconomic resources. This study assessed health-related QOL of European and non-European immigrant...

BACKGROUND Migrants from developing to Western countries tend to become more sensitised to host than to origin country allergens, although substantial changes in migration patterns have occurred in recent decades. METHODS We investigated adult immigrants with respiratory allergy, first tested for allergic sensitisation between 1985 and 2012 in a highly industrialised area in Italy. A comparis...

“Sport is best played in a club,” “Ali is on our side,” “Sport is international”—these and similar slogans are designed to encourage foreigners living in Germany to join a sport club. This interest of German sport organizations in attracting immigrants has a variety of aims. First, everybody living in Germany ought to have the chance of making use of the potentially positive effects of physical...

BACKGROUND It is not known what patient perceptions or beliefs lead to beneficial decisions or response patterns in symptom interpretation among heart failure (HF) patients, especially immigrants. The aim of this study was to explore and compare symptom recognition and health care seeking patterns among immigrants and native Swedes with HF. METHODS The study used a qualitative design. Semi-st...

Objective: To assess the degree of metabolic control and the presence of type 2 diabetes complications in diabetic immigrants. Methods: Cross-sectional case-control observational study, matched by age and sex. Cases: Hindustani diabetic immigrants (n= 116) and non-hindustani (n= 113). Controls: native diabetic patients with type 2 diabetes (n= 229). The relation male/female was 6.7, 0.8 y 2, re...

Immigrant flows to Spain have increased in the last decade, but little is known about the composition and role of personal support networks of immigrants to Spain. Our research questions are 1) to what extent are Spaniards, (more settled Spanish residents) present in an immigrants’ network, compared with non-Spaniards, such as other recent immigrants? 2) Which factors are associated with ties b...

afghanistan throughout its history has witnessed wars and conflicts have been numerous domestic and foreign. this has resulted in the migration of residents of this country. former soviet invasion of the country and then flare-up of internal strife after the withdrawal of soviet troops, in accelerating their migration to neighboring countries, especially iran has an important role. the aim of t...

INTRODUCTION AND OBJECTIVES The aim of this study was to determine the clinical characteristics of diabetes and associated cardiovascular risk factors in immigrants with diabetes in Spain. METHODS A multicenter, observational, cross-sectional study including a cohort of 605 diabetic immigrants and 307 native diabetics was conducted in patients diagnosed with diabetes and treated in primary an...