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Health Policy Challenges Posed By Shifting Demographics And Health Trends Among Immigrants To The United States
Health affairs (Millwood, Va.), v 40(7), pp 1028-1037
01 Jul 2021
PMID: 34228519
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Abstract
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 demography presents several challenges for US health policy makers. We examine recent trends in immigrant health and health care after the Great Recession and the nationwide implementation of the Affordable Care Act. Recent immigrants are more likely to have lower incidence of chronic health conditions than other groups in the US, although these differences vary along the citizenship and documentation status continuum. Health care inequities among immigrants and US-born residents increased after the Great Recession and later diminished after the Affordable Care Act took effect. Unremitting inequities remain, however, particularly among noncitizen immigrants. The number of aging immigrants is growing, which will present a challenge to the expansion of coverage to this population. Health care and immigration policy changes are needed to integrate immigrants successfully into the US health care system.
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- Title
- Health Policy Challenges Posed By Shifting Demographics And Health Trends Among Immigrants To The United States
- Creators
- Arturo Vargas Bustamante - University of California, Los AngelesJie Chen - University of Maryland, College ParkLucia Felix Beltran - Lucía Félix Beltrán is a research assistant in the Department of Health Policy and Management, UCLA Fielding School of Public Health.Alexander N. Ortega - Drexel University
- Publication Details
- Health affairs (Millwood, Va.), v 40(7), pp 1028-1037
- Publisher
- Project Hope
- Number of pages
- 10
- Grant note
- R01AG062315 / National Institute on Aging; United States Department of Health & Human Services; National Institutes of Health (NIH) - USA; NIH National Institute on Aging (NIA) R01MD013866; R01MD014146; R01MD011523 / National Institute on Minority Health and Health Disparities; United States Department of Health & Human Services; National Institutes of Health (NIH) - USA; NIH National Institute on Minority Health & Health Disparities (NIMHD)
- Resource Type
- Journal article
- Language
- English
- Academic Unit
- Biochemistry and Molecular Biology; Health Management and Policy
- Web of Science ID
- WOS:000681040800003
- Scopus ID
- 2-s2.0-85110969755
- Other Identifier
- 991019168146104721
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- Web of Science research areas
- Health Care Sciences & Services
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