Changing the navigator's course: How the increasing rationalization of healthcare influences access for undocumented immigrants under the Affordable Care Act

Social Science and Medicine

Volumn 178, Issue , 2017, Pages 46-54

  López Sanders, Laura ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA   (United States)

Author keywords

2010 Affordable Care Act; Community Health Workers (CHW); Health access; Hispanic; Immigrants; Navigators; Social networks; Undocumented

Indexed keywords

HEALTH CARE; HEALTH SERVICES; HEALTH WORKER; IMMIGRANT; SOCIAL NETWORK;

CALIFORNIA; DEFENSE MECHANISM; DRAWING; FIELD WORK; HEALTH AUXILIARY; HEALTH CENTER; HEALTH DISPARITY; HISPANIC; HUMAN; INTERVIEW; SOCIAL NETWORK; UNDOCUMENTED IMMIGRANT; ECONOMICS; HEALTH CARE DELIVERY; HEALTH CARE PERSONNEL; HEALTH CARE POLICY; HEALTH SERVICE; ORGANIZATION AND MANAGEMENT; PSYCHOLOGY; STANDARDS; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA; SUPPLY AND DISTRIBUTION; UNITED STATES;

CALIFORNIA; UNITED STATES;

HEALTH PERSONNEL; HEALTH SERVICES; HEALTH SERVICES ACCESSIBILITY; HUMANS; PATIENT PROTECTION AND AFFORDABLE CARE ACT; RATIONALIZATION; SAN FRANCISCO; UNDOCUMENTED IMMIGRANTS; UNITED STATES;

EID: 85012198660     PISSN: 02779536     EISSN: 18735347     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.socscimed.2017.01.066     Document Type: Article

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