•Brandy Lipton and coauthors explored the influence of children’s health insurance expansion to qualifying households, regardless of immigration status, in California.
•Dolores Acevedo-Garcia and coauthors considered immigrant legality as a social determinant of family and children’s health. Today on A Health Podyssey,Editor-in-Chief Alan Weil interviews Arturo Vargas Bustamante on the health of immigrants in the US today and how the shifting demography of the nation affects health policies.
Today on Health Affairs Blog, Vineeta Gupta and Sreenath Namboodiri discuss US support for a waiver of the Trade-Related
Aspects of Intellectual Property Rights Agreement to create more efficient and equitable opportunities to manufacture and distribute COVID-19 vaccines.
In a new GrantWatch post by Brian Quinn and Tina Kauh, the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation calls on academic institutions and other funders to ensure that policy makers can access research that has gone through a rigorous equity lens.
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The July 2021 thematic issue of Health Affairs takes an intensive look at thepolicy issues related to immigrants, borders, and health. Articles describe current migration trends and
supply new data analysis and commentary on how policies can address disparities and ease the disproportionate health burden borne by immigrants.
Please join us on Tuesday, July 20, when Health Affairs takes a closer look at the effects of recent US immigration policy on care, coverage, and outcomes for immigrants in the United States. Topics will include how, in mixed status families, noncitizen children face tougher health effects than their citizen siblings; how immigration enforcement reduces use of benefits like Medicaid and SNAP; and how states and others are crafting policy to restore that critical safety net.
An Aging Immigrant Population And The Health Policy Questions It Raises
Listen to Health Affairs Editor-in-Chief Alan Weil interview Arturo Vargas Bustamante from UCLA on the health of immigrants in the US today and how the
shifting demography of the nation affects health policies.
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