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Children Of Immigrants: A Case Study

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Thank you for the response. It was mainly the communication or language barrier that was frustrating for me. It was a challenge at first talking to the healthcare providers. Some of them were annoyed when I keep asking questions to clarify or asked them to slow down when they speak so I could follow. I did mention “most immigrants are healthier than the U.S.-born population, but within one or two generations they become, on average, less healthy than nonimmigrants, most likely due to the adoption of unhealthy American lifestyles combined with systematic access disparities that prevent appropriate care of chronic disease” (Robles, Gutiérrez, & Avila, 2014, p. 18). I have observed that children of immigrants, who assimilate to the American culture,

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