Issues Related To Multicultural Socities - Healthcare, Language And Religion

Question 1

In the past what issues have arisen with immunisation and diseases

Answer 1

There has been a lack of resistance to childhood diseases among the children of newly arrived immigrants, and fears about immunisation

Question 2

How have parents been informed about the benefits of immunisation

Answer 2

Literature has been produced in ethnic minority languages to inform parents about the benefits of immunisation.

Question 3

Why is there fewer concerns about healthcare with migrants

Answer 3

Literary and educational standards have improved, particularly among second and subsequent generation ethnic minorities, there have been fewer concerns.

Question 4

Where is there a spread of disease

Answer 4

Many ethnic minority groups continue to live in run-down inner-city areas and there remains a higher concentration of communicable and transmittable disease in such areas.

Question 5

Spread of disease within run-down areas

Answer 5

It is more of a reflection of the living standards in these areas than of the people who live in them.

Question 6

New non-English speaking migrants

Answer 6

Can find it difficult to obtain employment and to integrate if they do not speak English.

Question 7

Second-generation migrant children languages

Answer 7

They grow up speaking English and have difference aspirations from their parents. More likely to integrate, this can cause tension within the ethnic group if they adopt the culture of the host country.

Question 8

Migrants religion

Answer 8

Migrants from the Indian subcontinent, and Asia, are likely to follow a different religion from the host population = friction with employers and authorities