“…Several studies of female immigrants have shown higher rates of depression, chronic illness, and underutilization of the host country's health services, especially preventive care, than among non-immigrant women (Anderson, Dyck, & Lynam, 1997;Remennick, 1999b;Gross, BrammliGreenberg, & Remennick, 2001;Hyman & Guruge, 2000). Several scholars included gender comparisons in their studies of psychosocial adjustment and mental health among Asian and Latina immigrants in the US and Canada (see a critical review of this literature by Salant & Lauderdale, 2003), as well as in general health indices among immigrant populations (e.g., Gross et al, 2001;Newbold, 2003). Despite broad variance in these studies' target populations and methods, many of them have shown that the least integrated immigrant women manifest the poorest outcomes in terms of both physical and mental health.…”