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Impact of Immigration: Disease Exposure and Health Maintenance

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Increasing numbers of individuals and families originally from developing nations are responding to a lack of available jobs and economic, social, and political instability in their home countries by seeking work abroad; immigrating usually to developed countries. The following chapter intends to describe the occupational hazards, disease exposure, and health maintenance issues in immigrants with an illustrative clinical case.

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  1. Division of Geriatrics, Gerontology and Palliative Medicine, The University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio, San Antonio, TX, USA

    Sandra Sanchez-Reilly M.D., A.G.S.F., F.A.A.H.P.M.

  2. GEC and GRECC, South Texas Veterans Health Care System, 7703 Floyd Curl Drive MC 7875, San Antonio, TX, 78229, USA

    Sandra Sanchez-Reilly M.D., A.G.S.F., F.A.A.H.P.M.

  3. Division of Geriatrics Medicine, Department of Internal Medicine, Saint Louis University, 1402 South Grand Blvd M238, St. Louis, MO, 63104, USA

    Dulce M. Cruz-Oliver M.D., C.M.D.

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  1. Division of Geriatrics and Nutritional Science, Washington University in Saint Louis School of Medicine, St. Louis, Missouri, USA

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    Dulce M. Cruz-Oliver

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Sanchez-Reilly, S., Cruz-Oliver, D.M. (2017). Impact of Immigration: Disease Exposure and Health Maintenance. In: Cummings-Vaughn, L., Cruz-Oliver, D. (eds) Ethnogeriatrics. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-16558-5_4

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