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

ABSTRACT: There has been a great deal of state-level legislative activity focused on immigration and immigrants over the past decade in the United States. Some policies aim to improve access to education, transportation, benefits, and additional services while others constrain such access. From a social determinants of health perspective, social and economic policies are intrinsically health policies, but research on the relationship between state-level immigration-related policies and Latino health remains scarce. This paper summarizes the existing evidence about the range of state-level immigration policies that affect Latino health, indicates conceptually plausible but under-explored relationships between policy domains and Latino health, traces the mechanisms through which immigration policies m

SUBMITTER: Philbin MM 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5632125 | biostudies-literature | 2018 Feb

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature