State-level immigration and immigrant-focused policies as drivers of Latino health disparities in the United States

Social Science and Medicine

Volumn 199, Issue , 2018, Pages 29-38

  Philbin, Morgan M ^a   Flake, Morgan ^a   Hatzenbuehler, Mark L ^a   Hirsch, Jennifer S ^a  

^a Department of Medicine   (United States)

Author keywords

Health and wellness; Health inequalities; Immigrant immigration; Latino; Law and policy; Race ethnicity; State level policy; Structural racism; United States

Indexed keywords

EQUITY; HEALTH POLICY; HEALTH STATUS; IMMIGRANT; IMMIGRATION POLICY; LATINO PEOPLE; LEGISLATION; PUBLIC HEALTH;

DRIVER; EDUCATION; ETHNICITY; HEALTH DISPARITY; HISPANIC; HOUSING; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; IMMIGRANT; IMMIGRATION; PUBLICATION; RACISM; STRESS; UNITED STATES; WORK ENVIRONMENT; HEALTH CARE DELIVERY; HEALTH CARE POLICY; LEGISLATION AND JURISPRUDENCE; MIGRATION; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA;

UNITED STATES;

EMIGRATION AND IMMIGRATION; HEALTH POLICY; HEALTH SERVICES ACCESSIBILITY; HEALTH STATUS DISPARITIES; HISPANIC AMERICANS; HUMANS; RACISM; UNITED STATES;

EID: 85017335447     PISSN: 02779536     EISSN: 18735347     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.socscimed.2017.04.007     Document Type: Article

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