New Insights: "Immigration and Health: Law, Policy, and Ethics"

by: Wendy E. Parmet, Lorianne Sainsbury-Wong, and Maya Prabhu

Immigration poses numerous challenges for health care professionals and public health lawyers. Health professionals must care for patients with different cultural backgrounds, some of whom have experienced traumas in their country of origin, may not speak English, or lack access to health insurance.  Public health lawyers must untangle the multifaceted interactions between immigration law and health law, which add complexity, inefficiency, and inequity to the U.S. health care system.  Download to Read More ...

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Curated Source:  Immigration and Health: Law, Policy, and Ethics Wendy E. Parmet, Lorianne Sainsbury-Wong, and Maya Prabhu2016 public health law conference • spring 2017 57 The Journal of Law, Medicine & Ethics, 45 S1 (2017): 55-59. © 2017 The Author(s)