Health of the Latino immigrants

As Latino immigrants arrive in America, they are among the healthiest people in the United States. They are not affected by major killing diseases such as psychiatric diseases or even the hearts diseases. This is quite different with the native Latino’s and the Native Americans who live in the United States as they exhibit higher rates of these major diseases (Latinos Latino paradox, n.d).

The Latino paradox exists in the Cleveland Latino community. The Cleveland Latino community usually has health results that are paradoxically comparable to or rather better health outcomes than those of the US non-Latino or the Native Americans. It is a paradox since in most cases across the world; low socioeconomic status is often connected to poor population health and higher mortality rates. However, this is not the case with the immigrant (Latinos Latino paradox, n.d).

Though the immigrant Latinos are often tired and poor, their health status is incredible and has a low mortality rate (Arriving Healthy, n.d). However, this may be associated with their place of birth or social forces. These social forces within America influence the American way of doing things and this has greatly contributed to their high rates of mortality and diseases as compared to the Latino immigrants whose place of birth has a more different social force.

Upon arrival, the relationship between wealth and health are loosely tied but as the year's progress, the Latino’s relationship between health and wealth starts becoming closely tied. This is due to the fact that the discrimination rates increases over the years, the low wages, poor working conditions and so many other stressors contribute towards their ill health. Therefore after five years since their arrival, they tend to be among the people with the highest number of diabetes and high cases of high blood pressure among other diseases (Wealth Equals Health, n.d).  

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

References

Arriving Healthy (n.d). Video Excerpt, Unnatural Causes-Episode 3. Retrieved from: https://unnaturalcauses.org/video_clips_detail.php?res_id=493

Wealth Equals Health (n.d). Video Excerpt, Unnatural Causes - Episode 3. Retrieved from: https://unnaturalcauses.org/video_clips_detail.php?res_id=492

Latino paradox (n.d). Video Excerpt, Unnatural Causes-Episode 3. Retrieved from: https://unnaturalcauses.org/video_clips_detail.php?res_id=215