Immigrant Children

Children are vulnerable to health threats because they are smaller and their bodies have a harder time fighting off disease. Immigrant children are more susceptible to disease or illness because many immigrant children received low health care and nutriment. Immigrants often were impoverish so the parents of immigrant children could not afford quality health care. Food was also a struggle for many new immigrants therefore immigrant children were malnourished. The lack of food and health care made immigrant children more likely to catch a disease in their often substandard living environment. New York City schools tried to address these dangers by screening for disease at school implementing health standards for the faculty and students, and