Open AccessImmigrant Children's Reliance on Public Health Insurance in the Wake of Immigration Reform
Author(s) -
Susmita Pati,
Shooshan Danagoulian
Publication year - 2008
Publication title -
american journal of public health
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 2.284
H-Index - 264
eISSN - 1541-0048
pISSN - 0090-0036
DOI - 10.2105/ajph.2007.125773
Subject(s) - immigration , socioeconomic status , public health , foreign born , odds , odds ratio , confidence interval , medicine , demography , demographic economics , logistic regression , environmental health , political science , population , economics , sociology , law , nursing , pathology
We sought to determine whether the reversal of the public charge rule of the Illegal Immigration Reform and Immigrant Responsibility Act, which may have required families to pay for benefits previously received at no cost, led to immigrant children becoming increasingly reliant on public health insurance programs.