Immigration as a Social Determinant of Health Proceedings of a Workshop

• Main Authors: Anderson, Karen M, Olson, Steve
• Format: eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Washington, D.C National Academies Press 20.12.2018
• Edition: 1
• Subjects: Emigration and immigration; Immigrants

Since 1965 the foreign-born population of the United States has swelled from 9.6 million or 5 percent of the population to 45 million or 14 percent in 2015. Today, about one-quarter of the U.S. population consists of immigrants or the children of immigrants. Given the sizable representation of immig...