SynthesisJournal of racial and ethnic health disparities2022
Federal, State, and Local Immigrant-Related Policies and Child Health Outcomes: a Systematic Review.
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- Employment Exclusions and Health Care Access among Latine and Asian Immigrants in the Context of Racialization.Journal of racial and ethnic health disparities · 2026Article
- "Todo con Corazon, Hacemos Milagros*": a qualitative analysis of the needs of newly arrived immigrants amid complex political and healthcare landscapes.BMJ public health · 2026Article
- Access to and quality of contraceptive healthcare for undocumented immigrant women in California.SSM. Qualitative research in health · 2025Article
- Exploring the Links Between Immigration and Birth Outcomes Among Latine Birthing Persons in the USA.Journal of racial and ethnic health disparities · 2025Review
- Measuring county-level immigration policy contexts that may influence Latino health in California.SSM - population health · 2025Article
- State-level structural racism and sleep disturbances among Black and Latinx adolescents: Findings from the adolescent brain cognitive development study.Health psychology : official journal of the Division of Health Psychology, American Psychological Association · 2025Article
- Sanctuary policies and type 2 diabetes medication prescription trends among community health center patients.Health affairs scholar · 2025Article
- The impact of immigrant-specific policies and programmes on maternal, perinatal and paediatric outcomes: a scoping review.BMJ public health · 2025Article
- The Impact of the Alma-Ata Declaration on Global Pediatric Health Disparities: An Intersectional Perspective.Current tropical medicine reports · 2024Article
- Racial/ethnic disparities in all-cause and cause-specific death among children with malignant central nervous system tumours: a registry-based cohort retrospective analysis.EClinicalMedicine · 2024Article
- Anxious Activists? Examining Immigration Policy Threat, Political Engagement, and Anxiety among College Students with Different Self/Parental Immigration Statuses.Journal of health and social behavior · 2024Article
- Recreational cannabis legalization and immigration enforcement: a state-level analysis of arrests and deportations in the United States, 2009-2020.BMC public health · 2024Article
- Policy solutions to eliminate racial and ethnic child health disparities in the USA.The Lancet. Child & adolescent health · 2024Review
- Facing a dual threat: Pandemic stress and immigration policy vulnerability on mental health among Latinx immigrant parents.The International journal of social psychiatry · 2023Article
- The Toll of the COVID-19 Pandemic on Latinx Mixed-Status Immigrant Families in a Restrictive Immigration Policy Climate in the Southeast.Children and youth services review · 2023Article
- Caught Between a Well-Intentioned State and a Hostile Federal System: Local Implementation of Inclusive Immigrant Policies.The Milbank quarterly · 2023Article
- Latinx adolescent perspectives on the effects of United States immigration policy on wellbeing.Youth & society · 2023Article
- State-Level Anti-Immigrant Sentiment and Policies and Health Risks in US Latino Children.Pediatrics · 2023Article
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Abstract
The passage of US immigrant-related policies at the federal, state, and local level is on the rise. These policies may affect child health through several mechanisms. We performed a systematic review of English-language, peer-reviewed, quantitative studies examining US immigrant-related policies and the mental and physical health of youth in immigrant families. We searched PubMed and five social science databases for studies published between 1986 and 2019. Two independent reviewers screened the studies and appraised study quality. Of the final 17 studies, ten studies examined birth outcomes and seven studies examined other outcomes in childhood and adolescence (e.g., self-rated health). Generally, exclusionary policies were associated with worse health outcomes and inclusive policies were associated with better health outcomes. Several studies did not observe an association, but only one study found an association of the opposite direction. In that study, similar trends in different policy environments and across foreign-born and US-born women suggest alternative causes for the observed association. Overall, we find that exclusionary policies are, at best, neutral, but likely harmful towards child wellbeing, while inclusive policies can be beneficial.
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