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Immigrants: Coverage & Access to Care Reference Library
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Fix, M., and J. Passel, Urban Institute,Lessons of Welfare Reform for Immigrant Integration, March 2002.
These slides cover statistics on immigrants’ access to and use of health services in the United States, focusing particularly on how children of immigrants interact with the health care system.

National Health Law Program, Congressional Briefing: The Growing Need for Language Services, December 2004.
This briefing presents charts and trends on the limited-English proficiency population in the United States, and includes access to health care.

Passel, J.S., Angels & Pins: How Many Undocumented Immigrants Live in the U.S.?  Presentation at Conference on Demographic Impacts of Legalization Programs sponsored by the NICHD, Washington, DC, June 2005. PDF icon
This briefing presentation draws on research from the Pew Hispanic Center and the Urban Institute and outlines the legal status, distribution, size, and characteristics, such as education and health insurance coverage, of the immigrant population in the U.S.

Petsod, D., Grantmakers Concerned with Immigrants and Refugees,Moving Toward Immigrant Integration, October 2004. PDF icon
This presentation defines integration in terms of the immigrant experience and offers some strategies to improve immigrants’ experiences in the U.S. health care system.

 

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