Healthy Immigrants Lead to a Prosperous Nation
Access to quality healthcare is a basic human necessity, and the challenge of providing it with finite resources is particularly daunting for communities faced with large immigrant and refugee populations. Last year, as a USA Fellow with Eisenhower Fellowships, I traveled to Germany and Mexico to study their healthcare systems. Both countries face difficulties, but Germany, in particular, is feeling the strain of caring for immigrants and refugees, with more than 1 million having arrived in that country in 2015.
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