Author: Russell, Eric A.; Tsai, Carmelle; Linton, Julie M.
Title: Children in Immigrant Families: Advocacy within and beyond the Pediatric Emergency Department Cord-id: bv373nk1 Document date: 2020_9_9
ID: bv373nk1
Snippet: In the United States, 1 in 4 children lives in an immigrant family. State and national policies have historically precluded equitable access to healthcare among children in immigrant families. More recently, increasingly restrictive policies, political rhetoric, and xenophobic stances have made immigrant families less able to access healthcare and less comfortable in attempting to do so, thus increasing the likelihood that patients will present to the emergency department (ED). Once in the ED, l
Document: In the United States, 1 in 4 children lives in an immigrant family. State and national policies have historically precluded equitable access to healthcare among children in immigrant families. More recently, increasingly restrictive policies, political rhetoric, and xenophobic stances have made immigrant families less able to access healthcare and less comfortable in attempting to do so, thus increasing the likelihood that patients will present to the emergency department (ED). Once in the ED, language, cultural and health literacy barriers make providing high quality care potentially challenging for some families. Emergency care professionals can therefore glean critical insight regarding inequities from clinical work to inform advocacy and policy changes at institutional, community, regional, and national levels.
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