The recent case where parents with a child having Down’s Syndrome were excluded from migrating permanently to Australia has aroused much emotion. It is widely seen as discrimination against disabled people. It is nothing of the sort. It is discrimination against immigration applicants who may not provide net economic benefits to Australia if they [...]
Case for a migration policy discriminating against entrants with above-average health costs
by chicano | November 18th, 2008
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¡Ask a Mexican!
in Humor
by chicano | November 14th, 2008
Dear Mexican: Here in Canada, we have a huge problem with illegals coming up from the south, mainly to escape Bush or for our free health care. The solution is inspired by the same damned Yankees that we need to keep out: Build a big wall. Problem is, we could never get enough people to [...]
Health facts about U.S. Latino communities belie stereotypes
in Health
by chicano | November 11th, 2008
Decades after predicting Latinos will become California’s majority, a leading researcher into Latino health argued Wednesday Oct. 8 that the development might mean a healthier population.
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Racial And Ethnic Disparities Detected In Patient Experiences
by chicano | October 30th, 2008
A study surveying patients in more than 1,500 physician practices has found racial and ethnic disparities in patient health-care experiences, with minority patients having worse experiences than white patients.
Tags: Health, minority
Speaking Spanish Limits Access to Health Care
in General News
by chicano | September 18th, 2008
Spanish-speaking Hispanics in the United States have difficulty accessing the health-care system, University of North Carolina researchers report.
Prevention, collected data on 45,076 Hispanic adults across the United States. This represents about 90 percent of the U.S. Hispanic population.
Miss Hispanic Lubbock begins reign, plans to promote mental health
in General News
by chicano | September 13th, 2008
Lubbockonline.com - Sat Sep 13, 12:53 pm GMT…
Health care professionals seeing more children with fatty liver disease; condition prevalent among Hispanics
in Health
by chicano | September 4th, 2008
As many as 2% to 5% of children older than age five — most of whom are obese — are thought to have nonalcoholic fatty liver disease, and the condition seems to be most prevalent among Hispanic children, the AP/San Mateo Daily Journal reports.
Tags: Health, hispanic
Health Blog : Illegal Immigrant in a Coma Set to Be Deported By Hospital
in Shameful, immigration
by chicano | August 20th, 2008
A Chicago hospital is preparing to send a 30-year-old patient back to Mexico. Francisco Pantaleon, who is in this country illegally, had a brain hemorrhage last month and is in a coma at the University of Illinois Medical Center at Chicago.
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12-year-old with HIV to open world AIDS conference [Health]
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by chicano | August 5th, 2008
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seattletimes.nwsource.com - Keren Dunaway was 5 when her parents used drawings to explain to her that they both had the HIV virus - and so did she. Now the 12-year-old is one of the most prominent AIDS activists in Latin America and a rarity in a region where few children are willing to break the silence and tell their classmates they have HIV for fear of rejection.
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Immigrants kids even less active than U.S.-born
in General News
by chicano | August 4th, 2008
Many immigrant children get even less vigorous exercise than their U.S.-born counterparts, the largest study of its kind suggests.