With “The Health of Newcomers,” Northeastern professors Patricia Illingworth and Wendy Parmet make a case for the benefits that immigrants often provide to health systems, countering the xenophobic impression that immigrants bring disease with them. “Because health is a global public good and people benefit from the health of neighbor and stranger alike, it is in everyone’s interest to ensure the health of all,” according to the publisher’s webpage. Health services for all, they argue, helps natives and immigrants alike.