ABSTRACT

This book analyzes important international cases of immigrant and refugee health from diverse communication perspectives, providing theoretical frames and effective recommendations for designing future health communication campaigns and interventions for global health promotion.

Internationally renowned scholars elucidate the reality of health communication situations that immigrants and refugees experience in host countries around the globe and examine how national and global health risk situations, including the COVID-19 pandemic, affect immigrant and refugee health during difficult health circumstances. Offering effective health communication strategies for promoting immigrant and refugee health, the book also provides lessons learned from past and present health communication campaigns, responses of diverse communities, and governmental policies. 

This book with many case studies from major host countries on different continents, this book will be of interest to anyone researching or studying in the areas of health communication, public health, international relations, public administration, nursing, and social work.

chapter 4|15 pages

Survival Against Odds

Undocumented Immigrants and Communication about Policies and Access to Health Care in the United States

chapter 5|15 pages

Language Barriers as a Social Phenomenon

Distinctive Impacts on Health Communication in Japan and the United States

chapter 6|16 pages

Mapping Young Female Refugees' Personal Communication System for Health Promotion

A Pilot Project in the United States

chapter 7|18 pages

Communicating COVID-19 Health and Safety Measures to Vulnerable Communities

The Case of Refugees and Migrants in Austria and Germany

chapter 10|16 pages

Immigration, Social Support, and Well-Being

A Case Study of Immigrants in Hong Kong