Policy dilemmas in Latino health care and implementation of the Affordable Care Act

AN Ortega, HP Rodriguez… - Annual review of …, 2015 - annualreviews.org
The changing Latino demographic in the United States presents a number of challenges to
health care policy makers, clinicians, organizations, and other stakeholders. Studies have …

Immigrant health in the United States: a trajectory toward change

E Hall, NG Cuellar - Journal of Transcultural Nursing, 2016 - journals.sagepub.com
Introduction: Immigrants have a negative health trajectory due to interactions between
immigration policies and the totality of the immigration experience. Despite the enactment of …

[HTML][HTML] Health care access and physical and behavioral health among undocumented Latinos in California

AN Ortega, RM McKenna, JK Pintor, BA Langellier… - Medical care, 2018 - journals.lww.com
Background: This paper provides statewide estimates on health care access and utilization
patterns and physical and behavioral health by citizenship and documentation status among …

Health Policy Challenges Posed By Shifting Demographics And Health Trends Among Immigrants To The United States: Study examines examine recent trends in …

AV Bustamante, J Chen, L Félix Beltrán, AN Ortega - Health Affairs, 2021 - healthaffairs.org
Since the 1960s the immigrant population in the United States has increased fourfold,
reaching 44.7 million, or 13.7 percent of the US population, in 2018. The shifting immigrant …

Immigrant legal status and health: Legal status disparities in chronic conditions and musculoskeletal pain among Mexican-born farm workers in the United States

ER Hamilton, JM Hale, R Savinar - Demography, 2019 - Springer
Immigrant legal status determines access to the rights and privileges of US society. Legal
status may be conceived of as a fundamental cause of health, producing a health disparity …

Health care access and utilization among US immigrants before and after the Affordable Care Act

AV Bustamante, J Chen, RM McKenna… - Journal of immigrant and …, 2019 - Springer
We examine changes in health insurance coverage and access to and utilization of health
care before and after the national implementation of the Patient Protection and Affordable …

Legal status, time in the USA, and the well-being of Latinos in Los Angeles

MEDT Young, AR Pebley - Journal of Urban Health, 2017 - Springer
In the USA, undocumented Latino immigrants may have poorer health because of barriers to
health care, stressors, and detrimental effects of immigration enforcement. Previous …

Comparison of use of health care services and spending for unauthorized immigrants vs authorized immigrants or US citizens using a machine learning model

FA Wilson, L Zallman, JA Pagán, AN Ortega… - JAMA network …, 2020 - jamanetwork.com
Importance Knowledge about use of health care services (health care utilization) and
expenditures among unauthorized immigrant populations is uncertain because of limitations …

Nativity and citizenship status affect Latinos' health insurance coverage under the ACA

GR Sanchez, ED Vargas, MD Juarez… - Journal of Ethnic and …, 2017 - Taylor & Francis
ABSTRACT The 2010 Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (ACA) aimed to increase
health insurance access for the over 47 million uninsured people in the USA, among whom …

In low-income Latino patients, post-Affordable Care Act Insurance disparities may be reduced even more than broader national estimates: evidence from Oregon

J Heintzman, SR Bailey, J DeVoe, S Cowburn… - Journal of racial and …, 2017 - Springer
Background Early survey evidence suggests a reduction of disparities in insurance
coverage between Latinos and non-Hispanic Whites post-Affordable Care Act (ACA). These …