Week 8- Jamie Nickell

Culture and Health:

Some of the most expensive bills in life are medical bills. With health care being so incredibly hard to afford for a U.S. Citizen I can only imagine the difficulty an immigrant must have trying to receive medical attention or just regular checkups. Dr. Vaughn defines health to, "include other aspects of well-being -- 'state of complete physical, mental, and social well being, and not merely the absence of disease or infirmity'" (Vaughn p.134). I find this very interesting because many of us believe that health is simply revolved around if your sick or not, but this can be so much more than a physical illness. Can you imagine how a child of immigration must feel if his/her experience was traumatizing? Wouldn't this child need mental health care attention to help bring that child back and not have to keep feelings like that bottled up. Shouldn't that child receive physical health care if that child had experienced a "rough" move here to the U.S.? So why does it have to be so hard for someone to receive health care when these factors are life threatening?


My new nephew, Darin Lee.

It is the young and new generation that needs the resources and aids to help shape our society. We need to be able to offer and provide things such as a fair education, and health care to everyone whether they were born in America or not. They are moving here to start a life here in "the land of the free" yet we still continue to make it difficult for them to receive citizenship let alone health care and other benefits that they might NEED.

Jenny and I do not talk much about her experience of moving here to America. What I have gathered from her is she does not know. Besides the language barrier we experience, it is difficult for me to ask her more personal questions to get to know her more because I feel she gets uncomfortable when personal questions arise. I would not want to do anything to lose my trust from her or to make her uncomfortable in any way.