Comparing immigration status and health patterns between Latinos and Asians: Evidence from the Survey of Income and Program Participation.

ABSTRACT: Undocumented status is widely recognized as an important social determinant of health. While undocumented immigrants have lower levels of health care access, they do not have consistently poorer physical health than the US-born or other immigrant groups. Furthermore, heterogeneity by race/ethnicity has been largely ignored in this growing literature. This paper used the 2001, 2004, 2008 panels of the restricted Survey of Income and Program Participation (SIPP), one of the only representative surveys equipped to adequately identify Asian undocumented immigrants, to compare health patterns between Asians and Latinos by immigration status. We examined three general measures of health/health access: self-rated health, disability, and current health insurance. Latino undocumented immigrants dis

SUBMITTER: Ro A 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7853486 | biostudies-literature | 2021

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature