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Patients with limited English proficiency (LEP) receive fewer recommended preventive cancer screenings than English-speaking patients.

Patients with limited English proficiency (LEP) receive fewer recommended preventive cancer screenings than English-speaking patients.

Racial and ethnic minorities in the United States, including immigrants and refugees, have higher rates of diabetes, and worse outcomes than the general population.

While immigrant and refugee populations arrive to the United States healthier than the general population, these advantages disappear over time, partly due to adoption of unhealthy dietary behaviors.

Immigrants and refugees arrive to the United States healthier than the general population.

More than half of active tuberculosis (TB) cases in the United States occur in foreign-born individuals; the majority of these cases are attributable to reactivation of latent TB infection (LTBI).

Healthy literacy influences health behaviors and health outcomes. It is estimated that close to half of the adult United States population is functionally illiterate when it comes to health.

Childhood obesity is a public health epidemic that has been increasing at alarming rates in the United States.

Immigrants and refugees to the United States have physical activity levels and dietary behaviors that are less healthy than the non-immigrant majority.