Immigrants and health care access, quality, and cost

K Pitkin Derose, BW Bahney, N Lurie… - … Care Research and …, 2009 - journals.sagepub.com
Inadequate access and poor quality care for immigrants could have serious consequences
for their health and that of the overall US population. The authors conducted a systematic …

Connecting complex processes: A decade of research on immigrant families

JE Glick - Journal of Marriage and Family, 2010 - Wiley Online Library
This review examines research on immigrant families in the United States from the past
decade from multiple disciplinary perspectives. This work has used variations on …

Variations in healthcare access and utilization among Mexican immigrants: the role of documentation status

A Vargas Bustamante, H Fang, J Garza… - Journal of immigrant and …, 2012 - Springer
The objective of this study is to identify differences in healthcare access and utilization
among Mexican immigrants by documentation status. Cross-sectional survey data are …

Healthcare access and barriers for unauthorized immigrants in El Paso County, Texas

JMC Heyman, GG Núñez… - Family & community health, 2009 - journals.lww.com
This article presents a large body of qualitative material on healthcare access and barriers
for unauthorized immigrants living in the US-Mexico borderlands. The focus is on active …

Can we measure immigrants' legal status? Lessons from two US surveys

JD Bachmeier, J Van Hook… - International Migration …, 2014 - Wiley Online Library
This research note examines response and allocation rates for legal status questions asked
in publicly available US surveys to address worries that the legal status of immigrants cannot …

Why do Hispanics in the USA report poor health?

S Bzostek, N Goldman, A Pebley - Social Science & Medicine, 2007 - Elsevier
Despite the health and survival advantages of Hispanics relative to non-Hispanic whites in
the USA, Hispanics report themselves to be in worse health than whites. Prior research …

The consequences of migration to the United States for short-term changes in the health of Mexican immigrants

N Goldman, AR Pebley, MJ Creighton, GM Teruel… - Demography, 2014 - Springer
Although many studies have attempted to examine the consequences of Mexico-US
migration for Mexican immigrants' health, few have had adequate data to generate the …

Social determinants of health in imaging-based cancer screening: a case-based primer with strategies for care improvement

P Abraham, A Haddad, AE Bishay, S Bishay… - Radiographics, 2023 - pubs.rsna.org
Health disparities, preventable differences in the burden of disease and disease outcomes
often experienced by socially disadvantaged populations, can be found in nearly all areas of …

Unauthorized immigrants spend less than other immigrants and US natives on health care

JP Stimpson, FA Wilson, D Su - Health Affairs, 2013 - healthaffairs.org
Unauthorized immigrants and other immigrants who have been in the United States for less
than five years have few options for accessing health care through public programs. In light …

Prevalence and risk factors of low back pain among Thai and Myanmar migrant seafood processing factory workers in Samut Sakorn Province, Thailand

S Tomita, S Arphorn, T Muto, K Koetkhlai, SS Naing… - Industrial …, 2010 - jstage.jst.go.jp
This study assessed the prevalence of low back pain (LBP) and investigated risk factors for
LBP among seafood processing factory workers in Thailand including migrant workers. The …