Journal
HEALTH & PLACE
Volume 54, Issue -, Pages 20-28Publisher
ELSEVIER SCI LTD
DOI: 10.1016/j.healthplace.2018.08.023
Keywords
United States; Omnibus immigration-related laws; Latino children; Medicaid; Children's Health Insurance Program; Co-ethnic density
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- Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality [R36HS024248]
- Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (NICHD) [T32HD049302]
- NICHD Center Grant [P2C HD047873]
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In the United States, there is widespread concern that state laws restricting rights for noncitizens may have spillover effects for Latino children in immigrant families. Studies into the laws' effects on health care access have inconsistent findings, demonstrating gaps in our understanding of who is most affected, under what circumstances. Using comparative interrupted time series methods and a nationally-representative sample of US citizen, Latino children with noncitizen parents from the National Health Interview Survey (2005-2014, n = 18,118), this study finds that living in counties with higher co-ethnic density placed children at greater risk of losing Medicaid and Children's Health Insurance Program coverage when their states passed restrictive state omnibus immigrant laws. This study is the first to demonstrate the importance of examining how the health impacts of immigration-related policies vary across local communities.
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