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The inferior stock mentality was adopted in the quota system of the Immigration Act of 1924, which marked the beginning of examination of immigrants in their home countries. In the Immigration and Nationality Act of 1952 (INA), seven of the 31 grounds for exclusion were health-related. [4]
Immigrant health care is considered distinct from citizen health care, due to intersecting socioeconomic factors and health policies associated with immigration status. Disparities in health care usage, coverage, and quality are also observed, not only between immigrants and citizens but also among immigrant groups as well. [2]
A Federally Qualified Health Center (FQHC) is a community-based health care organization that provides comprehensive primary care and support services to underserved populations in the United States. These centers serve patients regardless of immigration status, insurance coverage, or ability to pay.
Hosted at Ohio State's Fawcett Center, the leaders of the project, "Immigrants make Columbus," seated a panel of four community advisory council members to discuss community-grounded solutions ...
For more than 2 million Ohioans, affordable health care remains out of reach. In 2021, the families of roughly 1 in 5 people – or 2.2 million Ohioans – spent more than 10% of their annual ...
Approaches in addressing specific mental health needs amongst resettled refugees have focused on trauma-informed frameworks with centered themes in "enabling safety, trust, choice, empowerment, and collaboration" While intentionally a holistic framework, trauma-informed care has been critiqued for its neoliberal constraints that often ...
A small Ohio town is the latest victim of the Biden-Harris administration’s open border policy after 3,000 migrants from the West African nation of Mauritania moved in in the past year — lured ...
The Hill-Burton Act of 1946, which provided federal assistance for the construction of community hospitals, established nondiscrimination requirements for institutions that received such federal assistance—including the requirement that a "reasonable volume" of free emergency care be provided for community members who could not pay—for a period for 20 years after the hospital's construction.