ReviewJournal of immigrant and minority health2009
Expanding the universe of universal coverage: the population health argument for increasing coverage for immigrants.
Review in Journal of immigrant and minority health, 2009. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 9 papers.
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9 citing papers in PubMed.
- Accounting for health expenditures, migration, and CO₂ emissions in the EU: a bidirectional analysis.Frontiers in public health · 2026Article
- Identifying challenges and enabling factors in utilizing health care services by undocumented immigrant women: a scoping review of qualitative research.Journal of health, population, and nutrition · 2025Article
- Perceived discrimination and refraining from seeking physician's care in Sweden: an intersectional analysis of individual heterogeneity and discriminatory accuracy (AIHDA).International journal for equity in health · 2024Article
- Access to Health Care for Migrants Along the Mexico-United States Border: Applying a Framework to Assess Barriers to Care in Mexico.Frontiers in public health · 2022Article
- Barriers to Accessing Acute Care for Newly Arrived Refugees.The western journal of emergency medicine · 2019Article
- Disparities in Health Care Coverage Among U.S. Born and Mexican/Central American Born Labor Workers in the U.S.Journal of immigrant and minority health · 2019Article
- The illness experience of an undocumented immigrant in the USA.BMJ case reports · 2018Article
- The Health Beliefs of Migrant Farmworker Parents: An Ethnographic Exploration.Journal of immigrant and minority health · 2016Article
- Impact of Alabama's immigration law on access to health care among Latina immigrants and children: implications for national reform.American journal of public health · 2014Article
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3 authors.
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Abstract
As the US recession deepens, furthering the debate about healthcare reform is now even more important than ever. Few plans aimed at facilitating universal coverage make any mention of increasing access for uninsured non-citizens living in the US, many of whom are legally restricted from certain types of coverage. We conducted a critical review of the public health literature concerning the health status and access to health services among immigrant populations in the US. Using examples from infectious and chronic disease epidemiology, we argue that access to health services is at the intersection of the health of uninsured immigrants and the general population and that extending access to healthcare to all residents of the US, including undocumented immigrants, is beneficial from a population health perspective. Furthermore, from a health economics perspective, increasing access to care for immigrant populations may actually reduce net costs by increasing primary prevention and reducing the emphasis on emergency care for preventable conditions. It is unlikely that proposals for universal coverage will accomplish their objectives of improving population health and reducing social disparities in health if they do not address the substantial proportion of uninsured non-citizens living in the US.
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