scholarly journals COVID-19: Threat and Vulnerability Among Latina Immigrants

Affilia ◽  
2021 ◽  
pp. 088610992098523
Author(s):  
Carol Cleaveland ◽  
Michele Waslin
Keyword(s):  
Health Care ◽  
Women Workers ◽  
Access To Health Care ◽  
Theoretical Perspective ◽  
The United States ◽  
Latina Women ◽  
Latina Immigrants ◽  
Adverse Health Outcomes ◽  
Public Health Data ◽  
Access To Health

As has been documented in public health data, infections and deaths from COVID-19 have been inequitably distributed in the United States, producing adverse health outcomes among vulnerable populations including Latina immigrants. Using a critical feminist theoretical perspective, this discussion examines the mechanisms informing these outcomes including lack of access to health insurance and health care and work in low-waged jobs with high potential exposure to the virus. In addition, we examine related risks to this population, including domestic violence during stay-at-home orders. We argue that social workers can join forces with immigrant-led organizations to support advocacy to reverse government policies that limit immigrants’ access to health care as well as ensuring that Latina women workers earn adequate wages for essential jobs.

Access to Health Care and Voting Behavior in the United States

2008 ◽  
Vol 19 (3) ◽  
pp. 731-742 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jeanette Kane Ziegenfuss ◽  
Micahel Davern ◽  
Lynn A. Blewett
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Health Care ◽  
Voting Behavior ◽  
Access To Health Care ◽  
The United States ◽  
Access To Health

Access to Health Care for Older Persons in the United States

2001 ◽  
Vol 13 (3) ◽  
pp. 329-354 ◽  
Author(s):  
Amy H. Auchincloss ◽  
Joan F. van Nostrand ◽  
Donna Ronsaville
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Health Care ◽  
Older Persons ◽  
Access To Health Care ◽  
The United States ◽  
Access To Health

Book Reviews: Leichter - Free To Be Foolish: Politics and Health Promotion in the United States and Great BritainHoward M. Leichter Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1991, 281 pp. US$35.00 cloth. ISBN 0-691-07867-X. Princeton University Press, 41 William St., Princeton, NJ 08540, USA.

1992 ◽  
Vol 11 (2) ◽  
pp. 290-292
Author(s):  
Andrea L. Bonnicksen
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Health Care ◽  
Great Britain ◽  
Life Style ◽  
Access To Health Care ◽  
The United States ◽  
Health Science ◽  
Princeton University ◽  
Life Styles ◽  
Access To Health

PrécisThe author is Professor of Political Science at Linfield College and Clinical Professor of Public Health and Preventive Medicine at Oregon Health Science University. In this book he traces a recent and “important shift in the debate over how people can maximize their chances of staying healthy” (p.7). Populations in both the United States and Great Britain for most of the century have regarded equitable access to health care as the basis for individual health. Within the last two decades, however, assumptions have shifted. Health is now thought to be a preventive exercise to be secured by reducing dangerous and foolish behaviors. In seeking to regulate dangerous behaviors of citizens, policymakers confront deeply seated values of individualism and choice.Leichter advances the thesis that policies that regulate life-styles are fundamentally different from other health policies. As a consequence, a distinct framework for evaluation is necessary, which he presents and elaborates upon throughout the book. He uses historical experiences in two countries—the United States and Great Britain—to develop and refine his thesis.Following historical overviews of the two health revolutions (access to health care and personal life-style monitoring), Leichter deals with four areas in which governments have sought to limit individual activities: smoking, alcohol control, road safety, and behaviors relating to AIDS. In his final chapter he evaluates “when and under what circumstances [it is] appropriate for the state to intervene in life-style decisions” (p. 31). This literate book is supplemented by four figures and thirteen tables.

scholarly journals Access to health care for uninsured Latina immigrants in South Carolina

2018 ◽  
Vol 18 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
John S. Luque ◽  
Grace Soulen ◽  
Caroline B. Davila ◽  
Kathleen Cartmell
Keyword(s):  
Health Care ◽  
South Carolina ◽  
Access To Health Care ◽  
Latina Immigrants ◽  
Access To Health
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