Providing Medical Services to Undocumented Immigrants: Costs and Public Policy1doi:10.1177/019791837901300406Fred ArnoldSee all articlesInternational Migration Review
Kirmayer LJ, Ueffing E, MacDonald NE, Hassan G, McNally M, Khan K, Buhrmann R, Dunn S, Dominic A, McCarthy AE, Gagnon AJ, Rousseau C, Tugwell P, coauthors of the Canadian Collaboration for Immigrant and Refugee Health (2011) Evidence-based clinical guidelines for immigrants and refugee...
The impact of migrant workers on the healthcare delivery system is poorly studied, but like other disenfranchised groups, such as the homeless, the poor and illegal aliens, are at increased risk for tuberculosis, violence, alcoholism and substance abuse. Approximately half of migrant labourers (US...
and payment mechanism for medical insurance and charges.On such basis,the authors recommended policy changes for the government to improve foreigner-oriented medical services,including building the regulations up to intemational customs for medical services,reforms in the payment system,medical insurance ...
The Immigration Medical Exam is a medical examination required by U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) for certain immigrants who are applying for a green card or other immigration benefits. The exam is conducted by a USCIS-approved civil surgeon and is used to determine whether an...
Using semi-structured in-depth interviews we focus on the question of why and how first-generation Koreans in Auckland, New Zealand, seek medical services in their country of birth. Narratives suggest that the immigrants' decisions are shaped by interactions between agency (self) and structure (...
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For example, Perreira and Pedroza (2019) summarized the literature concerning the influence of public policies on American immigrants' health and found that inclusive policies promote their health service coverage and adaptation to the United States, whereas exclusive policies have the opposite impacts....
As part of a larger study on the health of refugees from Iraq, self-reported medical conditions and symptoms were analyzed in a sample of 116 adult Iraqi immigrants (46 male, 70 female) who were seeking or already receiving outpatient mental health services ( n = 87) or treatment in a ...
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