The Effect of Fear on Access to Care Among Undocumented Latino Immigrants
The Effect of Fear on Access to Care Among Undocumented Latino Immigrants
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恐惧对无证拉丁裔移民获得护理的影响
DOI：
10.1023/a:1011389105821
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发表时间：
2001
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通讯作者：
C. Schur
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作者：
M. Berk;C. Schur
1994年加州187号提案的通过加剧了关于无证人口获得医疗保健的辩论。根据第187号提案，医生必须向移民当局报告无证移民。甚至在187年之前，一些无证移民可能对接触医疗保健系统持谨慎态度。本文探讨是否对一个人的移民身份的关注作为一种威慑寻求照顾。随着1996年福利改革立法和相关修正案的变化，这些问题可能会重新出现，这些变化影响到非公民移民参加公共项目的资格，以及各州为无证移民提供照顾的能力。因此，在休斯顿，埃尔帕索，弗雷斯诺和洛杉矶的拉丁美洲人集中的社区进行了无证拉丁美洲人的代表性面对面调查。调查发现，39%的无证成年移民表示担心因无证身份而接受医疗服务。那些报告恐惧的人更有可能报告无法获得医疗和牙科护理，处方药和眼镜。因此，可以得出结论，对移民身份的担忧降低了接受护理的可能性。
The passage of California's Proposition 187 in 1994 intensified debate over health care access for the undocumented population. Under Proposition 187, physicians would have been required to report the undocumented immigrants to immigration authorities. Even before 187, some undocumented may have been wary to come in contact with the medical care system. This paper examines whether concerns about one's immigration status serves as a deterrent to seeking care. These concerns may be resurfacing, with changes under the 1996 welfare reform legislation and related amendments that affect eligibility of noncitizen immigrants for public programs and states' ability to provide care to undocumented immigrants. Therefore, representative in-person surveys of undocumented Latinos were conducted in Houston, El Paso, Fresno, and Los Angeles in neighborhoods with significant concentrations of Latinos. It was found that 39% of the undocumented adult immigrants expressed fear about receiving medical services because of undocumented status. Those reporting fear were likelier to report inability acquiring medical and dental care, prescription drugs, and eyeglasses. Hence it can be concluded that concern about immigration status decreases the likelihood of receiving care.