title: Children in immigrant families impact health care system. Pennsylvania has almost a quarter of a million.
abstract: 15.7 million U.S. children (including almost a quarter of a million Pennsylvania children) live in immigrant families. These newest arrivals are becoming a critical component of the changing demographics of the state's (and nation's) evolving population. A complex set of economic, social and cultural factors affect these youngsters and their families, which in turn can impact on the delivery of health services.
authors.affiliation: Department of Gereral Dentistry, Stony Brook University, New York, USA. hwaldman@notes.cc.sunysb.edu
authors.forename: Barry
authors.initials: B
authors.lastname: Waldman
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D002648:Child; D002662:Child Health Services / Q000706:statistics & numerical data; D002675:Child, Preschool; D003695:Delivery of Health Care / Q000706:statistics & numerical data; D019140:Dental Care for Children / Q000706:statistics & numerical data; D054242:Emigrants and Immigrants / Q000706:statistics & numerical data*; D005006:Ethnicity / Q000706:statistics & numerical data; D006801:Humans; D007182:Income / Q000706:statistics & numerical data; D007802:Language; D010414:Pennsylvania; D015143:Philadelphia; D011203:Poverty / Q000706:statistics & numerical data; D014505:Urban Population / Q000706:statistics & numerical data