Health Care Use Among Latinx Children After 2017 Executive Actions on Immigration

The Impact of the Massachusetts Health Care Reform on Health Care Use Among Children.

In 2006 Massachusetts enacted a major health care reform aimed at achieving near-universal coverage in the state. While other studies have found that this reform substantially affected the use of health services in general, the impact of the reform on children is largely unexplored.1 Children are of special interest to policymakers because it is widely believed that better health in early child...

[Commentary: immigration, health status, and use of primary care services].

subject of the use of health services by the growing immigrant population coming from lower income countries to higher income ones is complex, and generally controversial. Contrary to what is believed, it is generally equal to or less than that of the population of the countries that accept them, 1,2 in countries without universal health insurance (as in the United States), as well as those cou...

Immigration policy and health care.

Executive Order on Immigration: Information and Resources

Courts (Maryland and Hawai'i) temporarily prevent the Government from enforcing the “travel ban” imposed by Executive Order 13780 [11]. The Government appealed both the Maryland and Hawai'i orders. On May 25, 2017, the Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals upheld [12] the Maryland District Court's preliminary injunction, meaning that the Executive Order travel ban will continue to be blocked for now....

Cautious Citizenship: The Deterring Effect of Immigration Issue Salience on Health Care Use and Bureaucratic Interactions among Latino US Citizens.

Research shows that health care use among Latino immigrants is adversely affected by restrictive immigration policy. A core concern is that immigrants shy away from sharing personal information in response to policies that expand bureaucratic monitoring of citizenship status across service-providing organizations. This investigation addresses the concern that immigration politics also negativel...