Ethnicity and Health Assignment - Essay Example

Regarding this issue it is stated by Julian that “the low mortality and morbidity among migrants despite the low socioeconomic location of many is explained by the fact that migrant selection includes a medical examination leading to the exclusion of those with medical problems” (Australian Institute of Health and Welfare 1996, p. 35; National Health Strategy 1993, pp. 37, 40-43, in Julian, 106). In other words, the preventive medical tests provided to migrants (mostly as a precaution against a possible ‘contamination’ of the population of the greater area) in fact has been proved to be valuable as it leads to the identification of diseases that could be diagnosed only when developed at a high level.

From a different point of view, the study of Julian showed that “the health of migrant women is influenced by ethnicity, class and gender” (108). It is also noticed that there are certain health problems that are not appropriately addressed, like ‘pregnancy/child­birth and domestic violence’ (Julian, 108). In accordance with the above the higher injury rates and the depression in migrant women could be explained by the problems that face with their health on a permanent basis due to events that are mainly connected with their gender and social characteristics.

The conditions of life of migrants could justify the health problems (particularly the injuries and the depression) that this part of the population faces continuously. However, generally the health problems appeared in migrants could be characterized as less ‘fatal’ than the relevant problems appeared in the native born Australians. For this reason, a relevant research showed that “overseas-born persons experience all-cause death rates 10% to 15% lower than for Australian-born persons.

Asian-born immigrants have especially low death rates for