While attending a conference at the Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México in Mexico City several years ago, Sharon Borja was struck by the story of a young man who, as a child, joined his parents repatriating to their ...
Jul 13, 2021
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Aggressive federal detention and deportation policies in the United States have a chilling effect on health care use among Hispanic adults, including those with diabetes, new research by the Yale School of Public Health finds.
Jul 8, 2021
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The 2016 presidential campaign saw a dramatic rise in anti-immigrant rhetoric. The sudden, high-profile change was associated with a substantial decline in utilization of health care services by undocumented adults and their ...
Mar 18, 2021
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Despite a leveling off of the COVID spike in Los Angeles in recent weeks, the city's death toll continues to rise. It's left people around Southern California and the rest of the country asking the same question: Why does ...
Feb 18, 2021
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Harsher immigration law enforcement by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement leads to decreased use of prenatal care for immigrant mothers and declines in birth weight, according to new Duke University research.
Feb 3, 2021
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A recent study finds that, while youth think all bullying is bad, non-immigrant adolescents object less to bullying when the victim is an immigrant. However, the study found that the more contact immigrant and non-immigrant ...
Jan 5, 2021
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Adolescents with a Swedish background drink more than adolescents with a non-European background, shows a new study from Malmö University.
Dec 15, 2020
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More than one in four adults in California report having poor oral health, but that figure rises to roughly one in two for the state's lowest-income residents and drops to one in five for those with the highest incomes, according ...
Dec 1, 2020
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We were told at the beginning of the coronavirus pandemic that the virus did not discriminate. But the truth is that COVID-19 has brought to light the structural inequalities in healthcare that have existed for decades.
Nov 25, 2020
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According to the World Health Organization (WHO), mental health illness and substance use disorders are key contributors to disability in young adulthood, and disparities in substance use persist along levels of academic ...
Nov 23, 2020
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