Health Through a Human Right Lens at the US-Mexico Border: Increasing Access to Healthcare for Central American Immigrants
The number of immigrants seeking entry into the U.S. through asylum requests or through irregular means is increasing, and most come from the Northern Triangle of El Salvador, Guatemala, and Honduras. Immigrants come fleeing extreme poverty, violence, health and social inequities, and drastic climat...
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| author | Carolina Venturi Diana Guízar-Sánchez María Elena Ramos-Tovar Melissa Torres Flor D. Avellaneda Luis R. Torres-Hostos Omar Matuk-Villazon |
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| description | The number of immigrants seeking entry into the U.S. through asylum requests or through irregular means is increasing, and most come from the Northern Triangle of El Salvador, Guatemala, and Honduras. Immigrants come fleeing extreme poverty, violence, health and social inequities, and drastic climate changes. Most had limited access to healthcare at home, and even more limited care along the journey. Those that are allowed entry into the U.S., are confronted with feeling unwelcome in many communities, having to navigate an array of local, state, and federal laws that regulate access to healthcare. We need immigration policies that preserve the health, dignity with a multinational policy for provision of healthcare through a human rights lens from point of origin to point of destination. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-8355f402ef044ddd977d728cded1499b2022-12-22T03:39:00ZengFrontiers Media S.A.Frontiers in Public Health2296-25652022-07-011010.3389/fpubh.2022.858402858402Health Through a Human Right Lens at the US-Mexico Border: Increasing Access to Healthcare for Central American ImmigrantsCarolina Venturi0Diana Guízar-Sánchez1María Elena Ramos-Tovar2Melissa Torres3Flor D. Avellaneda4Luis R. Torres-Hostos5Omar Matuk-Villazon6College of Medicine, University of Houston, Houston, OH, United StatesPhysiology Department, Faculty of Medicine, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, México City, MexicoSistema Nacional de Investigadores, Nivel SNI II, Facultad de Trabajo Social y Desarrollo Humano, Universidad Autónoma de Nuevo León, San Nicolás de los Garza, MexicoBaylor College of Medicine, Houston, TX, United StatesSchool of Social Work, Baylor University, Waco, TX, United StatesSchool of Social Work, The University of Texas Rio Grande Valley, Edinburg, TX, United StatesCollege of Medicine, University of Houston, Houston, OH, United StatesThe number of immigrants seeking entry into the U.S. through asylum requests or through irregular means is increasing, and most come from the Northern Triangle of El Salvador, Guatemala, and Honduras. Immigrants come fleeing extreme poverty, violence, health and social inequities, and drastic climate changes. Most had limited access to healthcare at home, and even more limited care along the journey. Those that are allowed entry into the U.S., are confronted with feeling unwelcome in many communities, having to navigate an array of local, state, and federal laws that regulate access to healthcare. We need immigration policies that preserve the health, dignity with a multinational policy for provision of healthcare through a human rights lens from point of origin to point of destination.https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fpubh.2022.858402/fullhuman rightsimmigrantssocial inequalitiesNorthern Triangle of Central Americabinational health insurance |
| spellingShingle | Carolina Venturi Diana Guízar-Sánchez María Elena Ramos-Tovar Melissa Torres Flor D. Avellaneda Luis R. Torres-Hostos Omar Matuk-Villazon Health Through a Human Right Lens at the US-Mexico Border: Increasing Access to Healthcare for Central American Immigrants Frontiers in Public Health human rights immigrants social inequalities Northern Triangle of Central America binational health insurance |
| title | Health Through a Human Right Lens at the US-Mexico Border: Increasing Access to Healthcare for Central American Immigrants |
| title_full | Health Through a Human Right Lens at the US-Mexico Border: Increasing Access to Healthcare for Central American Immigrants |
| title_fullStr | Health Through a Human Right Lens at the US-Mexico Border: Increasing Access to Healthcare for Central American Immigrants |
| title_full_unstemmed | Health Through a Human Right Lens at the US-Mexico Border: Increasing Access to Healthcare for Central American Immigrants |
| title_short | Health Through a Human Right Lens at the US-Mexico Border: Increasing Access to Healthcare for Central American Immigrants |
| title_sort | health through a human right lens at the us mexico border increasing access to healthcare for central american immigrants |
| topic | human rights immigrants social inequalities Northern Triangle of Central America binational health insurance |
| url | https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fpubh.2022.858402/full |
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