Online Program

Oral

Can Affordable Care Act (ACA) implementation improve access to healthcare services among immigrants? Would immigration status and enforcement derail the ACA goal? What effect, if any, is Immigration status and enforcement having on access to preventive care services among immigrants? The proposed session examines these questions and highlights specific challenges pose to immigrant populations, especially undocumented immigrants, in light of key policy ACA implementation.

Session Objectives: Identify approaches to measuring undocumented status in immigrant populations. Describe policy provisions that include and/or exclude legal and undocumented immigrants from receiving health care and social benefits under the Affordable Care Act, Welfare Reform and other related policies. Describe health insurance coverage disparities related to documentation status among children of immigrants Discuss how immigration policies hinder public health efforts to respond to family and intimate partner violence among undocumented immigrants.