In the first, Meghan Benton and Demetrios Papademetriou consider how COVID-19 is reshaping border and immigration management in the US and draw parallels with policy changes made after September 11, 2001.
The authors analyzed the pandemic’s impact on migrants, migration flows, and migration policies and argue that COVID-19 offers both risks and opportunities for future safe travel and migration policy.
In the second, Ietza Bojorquez-Chapela and coauthors analyzed official health policy documents in Mexico to study the extent to which the country considered the needs of in-transit migrants and asylum seekers in its response to
the COVID-19 pandemic.
The authors found that only a small number of publicly available documents mentioned the health care needs of in-transit migrants and asylum seekers.
Bojorquez-Chapela and coauthor Cesar Infante will appear on A Health Podyssey podcast next week to dive deeper into this research.
Today on Health Affairs Blog, Steven Sheingold and colleagues from the US Department of Health and Human Services argue that a debate over social risk adjustment in isolation is too narrow a lens for considering the systemic problem of poor outcomes for vulnerable patients.
In a new GrantWatch post, Kelly Rand and Nancy C. Yedlin cover a recent workgroup, funded by the ABIM Foundation and the Donaghue Foundation and managed by AcademyHealth, on how low-value care is experienced by Black
and Latinx communities. Check out our COVID-19 Resource Center for content about all things related to the pandemic.
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