Doctors at the Borders: Immigration and the Rise of Public Health: Immigration and the Rise of Public Health

A unique resource for the general public and students interested in immigration and public health, this book presents a comprehensive history of public health and draws 10 key lessons for current immigration and health policymakers.

• Addresses many "hot topics" regarding public health, such as how to best cope with mass migration of legal and illegal immigrants; concern about pandemics like the Ebola crisis in West Africa, the Enterovirus-D68 outbreak, and the recent avian flu and swine flu epidemics; and the threat of bioterrorism within the United States

• Examines the history of the mass migration of the 1820–1920 era to provide insight into how to better cope with mass migration and the public health threats of today

• Demonstrates how more lives are saved through public health campaigns than any other approach to medicine, and that only a national approach to public health can adequately thwart the threats of pandemic disease to our entire country

• Presents information derived from original research from records at the National Archives and Records Administration and at the National Museum of Health and Medicine