International Migration Review
Volume 53, Issue 2, 2019, Pages 396-428

Immigrants, Place, and Health: Destination Area Health Contexts and Routine Physician and Dental Care for Children of Mexican Immigrants (Article)

Graefe D.R.* , De Jong G.F. , Howe Hasanali S. , Galvan C.
  • a [Affiliation not available]
  • b [Affiliation not available]
  • c Population Research Institute, United States
  • d US Census Bureau, United States

Abstract

Notable healthcare disparities are shown among the children of Mexican immigrants across different Hispanic immigrant destinations. A hostile local immigrant-receptivity climate and alternative institutional community context indicators are integrated with individual-level data on physician and dental care from the 1996 and 2001 Survey of Income and Program Participation to explain this variation. Mexican immigrants’ children in new Hispanic immigrant destinations are 20 percent less likely to see a doctor, and a negative receptivity climate explains about half of this effect. Community health clinic availability and greater state leniency toward immigrant child public health insurance eligibility facilitate healthcare access. © The Author(s) 2018.

Author Keywords

Immigrant Children clinics Health policy

Index Keywords

health geography accessibility dental health Health Policy child health health services Latino people health care service provision health insurance immigrant population
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DOI: 10.1177/0197918318789128
ISSN: 01979183
Original Language: English