Immigration and the Life Course: Contextualizing and Understanding Healthcare Access and Health of Older Adult Immigrants.

ABSTRACT:

Objective

Immigrant health discussions often focus on acculturation and omit discussions on historical events that may underlie health differences among immigrant older adults. This paper provides a historical overview of immigration policy and flows to the U.S. and examines insurance access and health difficulties by sending country.

Methods

We analyzed the "Immigrants Admitted to the United States, Fiscal Years 1972-2000" and 2015-2019 American Community Survey datasets to examine the number of admitted immigrants, sociodemographic profiles for current immigrant older adults, and the predicted probabilities of health insurance access and health difficulties.

Results

Our results highlight alignment of immigration flows with immigration legislation and vast heterogene

SUBMITTER: Bacong AM 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9630965 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature