Issues in Access to Health Care: The Undocumented Mexican Resident in Richmond, California

Moore, Eric G.

doi:10.1111/j.1937-6219.1986.tb01029.x

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“…Latino immigrants are limited in their ability to secure health and insurance benefits through their employment. According to research, unregistered workers have a real or imagined political inability to gain occupationally-related security (Moore, 1986). Fear of job loss or of deportation prevents individuals from requesting employee benefits.…”

Section: Background: Barriers To Health Care Access Among Rural Latinosmentioning

confidence: 98%

Educational and health services innovation to improve care for rural Hispanic Communities in the US

Sherrill

Crew²,

Mayo³

et al. 2005

Education for Health: Change in Learning & Practice

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THE CASE OF WALHALLA, SC: The town of Walhalla, South Carolina is a rural community located in Oconee County, the northwest corner of the state. Disparities exist between rural and urban residents in several health categories, and these disparities illustrate the need to provide competent, appropriate and affordable healthcare to rural populations. The Hispanic population of Oconee has dramatically increased in the past decade, and the majority of these immigrants have no health insurance and have limited access to health services. DESIGNING A PROGRAM TO FIT THE COMMUNITY--THE "WALHALLA EXPERIENCE": The purpose of the Accessible and Culturally Competent Health Care Project (ACCHCP) is to provide care for underserved populations in Oconee County, South Carolina while providing rural educational opportunities for health services students. Funded by the Health Resources and Services Administration of DHHS, the program is designed to offer culturally appropriate, sensitive, accessible, affordable and compassionate care in a mobile clinic setting. In this interdisciplinary program, nurse practitioners, health educators, bilingual interpreters, medical residents and Clemson University students and professors all played key roles. Women in the community also serve as Promotoras or lay health advisors. The program is unique in using educational initiatives and innovative strategies for bringing health care to this underserved community and offers important information for rural health care initiatives targeting minority groups. This paper reports on the challenges and successes in the development and implementation of the ACCHCP program in Walhalla, South Carolina.

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Section: Background: Barriers To Health Care Access Among Rural Latinosmentioning

confidence: 98%

Educational and health services innovation to improve care for rural Hispanic Communities in the US

Sherrill

Crew²,

Mayo³

et al. 2005

Education for Health: Change in Learning & Practice

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“…Fear of deportation or losing their jobs keeps them from asking for safety at the workplace or other needed employee benefits. As shown by Moore, 65 undocumented workers have a real or imagined political inability to gain occupationally related security. Because women are quite often the primary caregivers for the children, they bear a major burden for maintaining family security and welfare.…”

Section: Implications For Health Care and Cancer Controlmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…They must deal with bureaucratic agencies associated with healthcare services and insensitive and prejudiced personnel, and they must find the means to overcome transportation, cost, and language barriers. 65 Undocumented Latinas tended to be younger and employed in menial jobs. Their use of public assistance was low even though they were likely to have young children.…”

Section: Implications For Health Care and Cancer Controlmentioning

confidence: 99%

Implications for Breast and Cervical Cancer Control for Latinas in the Rural South: A Review of the Literature

2003

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The Latino population has more than tripled in six southern US states. Little research exists describing the Latino population in the rural South and the unique cancer control needs of this group. This article reviews existing literature on Latinas with a focus on rural southern settlement processes and applicable breast and cervical cancer control research. Recommendations for effective cancer control programs include developing special outreach efforts conducted with monolingual Latinas, incorporating important cultural components and values related to family, spirituality, and community, and designing programs that incorporate low-literacy materials and messages or that do not require literacy to participate. Understanding the social, cultural, and economic issues that Latinas face is an important first step in designing culturally relevant breast and cervical cancer control.

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“…Highlighting what was of importance to medical anthropology in the early 1980s when it turned its gaze upon migration, resettlement and refugees, Morrisey suggested mental health (the stress of uprooting and resettling); fertility; health problems in relation to dietary change; how curing behaviour is effected; and – pressingly – how the receiving society dealt with health care delivery (Morrisey, 1983). Reviewing literature of the barriers to Hispanic use of medical health care in the US –“language, culture, cost, folk medical beliefs, alienation, “patron‐dependency”, and a health care system created and dominated by Anglos”– Moore added “a sometimes crippling fear of deportation” (Moore, 1986: 66, 69). Moore highlighted how for “undocumented” (illegal) immigrants they preferred to use private facilities, because the welfare system required verification of residency status.…”

Section: The Ambiguities Of the “Foreign Born”mentioning

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Less than Human? Diaspora, Disease and the Question of Citizenship

Harper

Raman

2008

International Migration

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The aim of this special edition of International Migration is to bring about discussion between those conducting research in Diaspora Studies and the Anthropology of Public Health and Medicine. Historically, international migration has been associated with the transport of disease. Regardless of the evidence, metaphors of plague, and infection have circulated and been used to marginalise and keep out diaspora communities in host countries in an effort to 'exclude filth'. Migrants have been referred to in terms such as the 'Asiatic menace' indicating a virus-like threat to local populations. We look at the impact the traces of these images have on current host nations' perceptions of diaspora communities and also ask what impact does this have on the diasporic communities' self-perceptions, if any? Does this affect conceptions of belonging, or feed into continuing dialogues of displacement? The movement of people has long been associated with the spread of disease and infections. In light of this, we are concerned with the role of medical knowledge and practices in relation to diaspora communities, and how these discourses have contributed to the perception of diaspora populations by host societies, and helped shape wider questions of belonging and citizenship. We aim to look at these questions in their historical context, both in their continuities and discontinuities, emphasising the importance of this to an understanding of current practices. Circuits of migration, and connected medical practices are taking new forms, where, on the one hand migrants are still associated with disease and pollution, but on the other migrants are also increasingly staffing the infrastructure of western public health services. At the same time, the west can no longer lay claim to 'superior' biomedical provision. These shifts signal new

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Issues in Access to Health Care: The Undocumented Mexican Resident in Richmond, California

Cited by 9 publications

References 12 publications

Educational and health services innovation to improve care for rural Hispanic Communities in the US

Educational and health services innovation to improve care for rural Hispanic Communities in the US

Implications for Breast and Cervical Cancer Control for Latinas in the Rural South: A Review of the Literature

Less than Human? Diaspora, Disease and the Question of Citizenship

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