Education Resources

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Students learn about immigrants’ experiences with U.S. health care from a historical and a personal perspective, and explore multiple factors that influence individual and community health.

Educators are welcome to adapt these resources to their students’ interest and desired learning outcomes.

Lesson Plan

A family group with children posed outside a home.

Determinants of Health: Henry Street Visiting Nurses

Grade Level: 10–12

Subject: Health Education and History & Social Studies

Students learn about various determinants of health using primary and secondary sources. To consider health determinants, students examine a selection of images and texts about the Henry Street Settlement Visiting Nurse Service from the 1930s.

University Module

A group of women and nurses sit working around tables.

Immigrant Health, Health Services, and History

University Module

Ideas about health and medicine have been an important part of U.S. immigration policies and attitudes toward immigration. Students explore how such ideas developed and how they have changed over time.

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