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Immigration

2018

Association of scheduled vs emergency-only dialysis with health outcomes and costs in undocumented immigrants with end-stage renal disease

2017

 Immigrants, the Emergency Physician and the Election Day

2016

Brief intervention in the emergency department among Mexican-origin young adults at the US–Mexico border: Outcomes of a randomized controlled clinical trial using promotores

2013

Effects of immigration enforcement legislation on Hispanic pediatric patient visits to the pediatric emergency department

Fear of discovery among Latino immigrants presenting to the emergency department

RESOURCES FOR HEALTH PROFESSIONALS


  1. Doctors for Immigrants: to help develop healthcare facilities policies regarding fear among immigrants due to immigration enforcement and promote positive health-seeking behaviors among these individuals:  https://doctorsforimmigrants.com/ourwork/#ourtoolkit

  2. Sanctuary Doctoring: An approach: https://journalofethics.ama-assn.org/article/good-sanctuary-doctoring-undocumented-patients/2019-01?Effort%2BCode=FBB007

Demonstration Video: https://hsd.luc.edu/bioethics/content/sanctuary-doctor/

  1. National Immigration Law Center: HCPs and Immigration Enforcement: https://www.nilc.org/issues/immigration-enforcement/healthcare-provider-and-patients-rights-imm-enf/

Immigration Enforcement: https://www.nilc.org/issues/immigration-enforcement/

  1. National Center for Medical-Legal Partnership: Use of legal services to improve individual and population health:  https://medical-legalpartnership.org/resources/

  2. American Academy of Pediatrics: Immigrant child health resources/tool-kit: https://www.aap.org/en/patient-care/immigrant-child-health/

  3. Physician for Human Rights (PHR) Asylum Network Resources: resources and guides for advocacy and evaluators: https://phr.org/issues/asylum-and-persecution/asylum-network-resources-linked/

  4. The Hastings Center: undocumented immigrants and healthcare access in the U.S.: public database and projects resources: https://undocumented.thehastingscenter.org

Supporting Health Equity and Affordable Health Coverage for Immigrant Populations: https://www.rwjf.org/en/library/research/2021/10/supporting-health-equity-and-affordable-health-coverage-for-immigrant-populations.html


SOCIAL MEDIA CONTENT:


  1. TEDMED: Denisse Rojas Marquez - No longer afraid: and undocumented immigrant’s experience in American healthcare: https://www.tedmed.com/talks/show?id=730486 

Additional Resources:

ICE in the ER: How US policies are causing an immigrant health crisis (2018)

https://phr.org/our-work/resources/ice-in-the-er-how-u-s-policies-are-causing-an-immigrant-health-crisis/

Provider and administrator-level perspectives on strategies to reduce fear and improve patient trust in the emergency department in times of heightened immigration enforcement (2021)

https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0256073

PHR: Asylum Network Resources: Guides and Protocols for Clinicians

https://phr.org/issues/asylum-and-persecution/asylum-network-resources-linked/

Chilling Effects: US immigration Enforcement and Healthcare Seeking Among Hispanic Adults (2021)

https://www.healthaffairs.org/doi/10.1377/hlthaff.2020.02356

Borders, Immigrants and Health (2021)

https://www.healthaffairs.org/doi/10.1377/hlthaff.2021.00689

Health Policy Challenges Posed By Shifting Demographics and Health Trends Among Immigrants to the US (2021)

https://www.healthaffairs.org/doi/10.1377/hlthaff.2021.00037

Content Analysis of US Sanctuary Immigration Policies: Implications for Research in Social Determinants of Health (2021)

https://www.healthaffairs.org/doi/10.1377/hlthaff.2021.00097

TEDMED 2018: No Longer Afraid: an Undocumented Immigrant’s experience in American Health Care 

https://www.tedmed.com/talks/show?id=730486

Understanding US immigration Detention: Reaffirming Rights and Addressing Social-Structural Determinants of Health (2020)

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7348446/pdf/hhr-22-01-187.pdf

The Hastings Center: Undocumented Immigrants and Healthcare Access in the United States

https://undocumented.thehastingscenter.org

Social Determinants of Health and Health Disparities Among Immigrants and their children (2019)

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/30595524/

Immigration Status as a health care barrier in the USA during COVID-19 (2021)

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2666623521000039?via%3Dihub

Noncitizen children face higher health harms compared with their siblings who have US citizen status (2021)

https://www.healthaffairs.org/doi/abs/10.1377/hlthaff.2021.00065

California’s Health4All Kids Expansion and health insurance coverage among low-income noncitizen children (2021)

https://www.healthaffairs.org/doi/10.1377/hlthaff.2021.00096

Restoring an inclusionary safety net for children in immigrant families: a review of three social policies (2021)

https://www.healthaffairs.org/doi/10.1377/hlthaff.2021.00206

Life expectancy at the US-Mexico border: Evidence of Disparities by place, race, and ethnicity (2021)

https://www.healthaffairs.org/doi/10.1377/hlthaff.2021.00139

COVID-19 Vulnerability by Immigration Status (2021)

https://www.dhs.gov/sites/default/files/publications/immigration-statistics/research_reports/research_paper_covid-19_vulnerability_by_immigration_status_may_2021.pdf

Supporting Health Equity and Affordable Health Coverage for Immigrant Populations (2021)

https://www.rwjf.org/en/library/research/2021/10/supporting-health-equity-and-affordable-health-coverage-for-immigrant-populations.html

Good Sanctuary Doctoring for Undocumented Patients (2019)

https://journalofethics.ama-assn.org/article/good-sanctuary-doctoring-undocumented-patients/2019-01?Effort%2BCode=FBB007

Immigrant Sanctuary or Danger

https://www.berghahnjournals.com/view/journals/migration-and-society/4/1/arms040107.xml

Doctors for immigrants

https://doctorsforimmigrants.com/ourwork/#ourtoolkit

Resources for Teaching and Learning About Immigrant Health Care in Health Professions Education

https://journalofethics.ama-assn.org/sites/journalofethics.ama-assn.org/files/2018-12/medu2-1901_1.pdf

SDoH

https://health.gov/healthypeople/objectives-and-data/social-determinants-health

Public charge rule

https://www.uscis.gov/green-card/green-card-processes-and-procedures/public-charge