Immigrant health initiative begins in SE Minnesota

This should save a lot of lives and money in future, immigrants often develop health problems when they try to fit into life here. - - Donna Poisl

Written by Elizabeth Baier, Minnesota Public Radio News

In a first-of-its-kind collaboration, researchers at the Mayo Clinic are working with more than a dozen community organizations to keep immigrants and refugees from developing common diseases like diabetes, high blood pressure and obesity.

The project, which includes nursing students at Winona State University in Rochester, focuses on southeastern Minnesota, an area of the state that has seen some of the largest demographic shifts in the last decade.
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