Medical Spanish for Health Care Providers is an online tutorial focused on improving language and cultural competency among health care providers. It provides lessons on basic Spanish pronunciation and a list of health care terms in Spanish that visitors can listen to and then repeat. The site also explains cultural beliefs related to health care and differences in accents.
In this webcast, experts discuss the influence that immigration policy has on health care policy decisions at the federal and state levels. Topics include access to health care and health care coverage for legal and undocumented immigrants, ways in which local health providers have responded to changes in demographics, and how policy changes affect health disparities.
GCIR's Health E-newsletters keep funders and nonprofits up-to-date on the most recent resources available on a myriad of health-related issues that are relevant to immigrant populations. Resources include links to recent articles, newspaper columns, major reports, books, recorded programs, and conferences and trainings.
This paper presents data from the National Survey of America's Families (NSAF) on how immigrant status affects insurance coverage and the use of medical, dental, and mental health services by adults and children. A key advantage of NSAF is that it includes data about citizenship, insurance status, and health care use.
GCIR’s Health E-newsletters keep funders and nonprofits up-to-date on the most recent resources available on a myriad of health-related issues that are relevant to immigrant populations. Resources include links to recent articles, newspaper columns, major reports, books, recorded programs, and conferences and trainings.
"Health is a cornerstone of immigrant integration as much as education and learning English. If a family has health insurance for their children, then those children are in school learning and not home sick. Their parents don't have to miss work as often and can stabilize their family financially. Medical bills are the number-one cause for bankruptcy, so this is also about protecting the family against the financial difficulty that comes along with being uninsured."
This Binational Health Week fact sheet documents the barriers Mexican immigrants encounter when attempting to access preventive health care. Their lower use of preventive services is due, in large part, to high rates of having no usual source of care as well as low rates of health insurance coverage. The information contained in this fact sheet is based on an analysis of the 2000 National Health Interview Survey.
Immigrants are an integral part of the U.S. society, contributing both to the economy and diversity of the country. Despite their important role, immigrants disproportionately lack health coverage and receive fewer health services than native-born citizens. This report outlines immigrants’ health care coverage and access and explores potential policy challenges.
Explains special concerns that keep immigrant families from participating in public-benefit programs even when eligible. Describes confusion about eligibility, confidentiality, public charge, sponsor liability, and language access, and gives step-by-step suggestions for overcoming barriers in the application process, improving enrollment strategies, and conducting outreach to immigrant families.
Provides detailed comparative analysis of how race/ethnicity, immigration status, and language affect health insurance coverage, access to care, and quality of care; helpful charts portray coverage rates and percentages by status and ethnicity who saw a doctor, were hospitalized, or postponed seeking care. Policies that could play a key role in reducing disparities include restoring federal coverage to legal immigrants, expanding state replacement programs, increasing job-related coverage, and improving language access.
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