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Immigration Health Problems: Health Care and Immigration, Immigration Health Services

According to recent medical studies, the United States is having one of the greater immigration waves of all its history. This situation eventually and consequentially means that the nation will affront new health problems challenges with this massive wave of new immigrants. According to the statistics, the major immigrant groups that are coming to the United States are Latino and Asian groups.  From this situation are lifting some important questions like these:

• What is the health profile of the new immigrant groups reaching the United States of America?
• Physical activity: there is some evidence that confirms that the exercise can reduce the risk of cardiovascular and pulmonary diseases. It also can prevent some chronic conditions as diabetes, asthma and certain arthritic conditions. In general, there is no strong evidence that could certainly says us what is the physical activities of immigrants, but we can say with some reliability that this immigration groups are not regularly practicing physical exercising.  According to the most recent immigrants’ health studies:
• 17% of immigrants says that they regularly practiced some type of exercise activity in comparison with the 21% of US citizens when answer to the same question
• Among the Hispanic group, a 16% of Hispanic immigrants say that never have practiced any physical activity versus the 6% of US citizens that never have exercised.
• However, there are no significant differences between Asian immigrant group and US citizens in themes of physical activities.
• Overweight and Obesity: Every day we receive news about the steady increment of obesity in American society. There are significant concerns at government health official levels about how this incrementing pattern of overweight and obesity morbidity can affect the quality of the government healthcare services and how this pattern threatens the American society.  The National Health Interview Survey (NHIS) studies found that among the immigrants there is no this American’s society and generalized obesity and overweight problems. However, when the American enculturation have touches these new populations (the immigrants), and when they acquire the American life way, then the overweight and obesity rates in immigrants comes to raise up at the same levels commonly seen among US citizens.
• Tobacco use: Cigarette smoking represents the cause of a significant number of deaths in the United States. Some studies estimate that 23 % of Americans are cigarette smokers.  In addition, from this smoker populations near of 20% are adolescents.  However, immigrants have a lower smoking rate. According with the NHIS:
• Central American immigrants have a lowest smoker rates that other Hispanic groups like Mexicans or Cubans.
• The higher immigrant smoker rates are to the Southeast Asian and Korean men with a smoker incidence as high as 34% to 43%.
• Latino adolescents have the higher smoker incidence rate compared with other adolescent groups and citizens with near 33% of them smoking and this tendency is still rising rapidly.
• Substance abuse: The substance abuse can be divided between the illicit drugs consumption and the alcoholic beverages consumption. The immigrant group that is leading the higher rate of illicit substances consumption in the United States is Latinos followed by the Asian immigrants. US citizens’ consumption of this class of substances is lower than the above-mentioned groups. By the other hand, the immigrant group that is leading the higher rate of alcoholic consumption abuse is Caucasian immigrant group. In this category also US citizens alcoholic consumption rate are lower than this immigrant group. Curiously and according with the NHIS data, the tendency of substance abuse of immigrant persons are similar with that of US citizens after the time has passed.  

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