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"Recognize Our Humanity": Immigrant Youth Voices on Health Care in Arizona's Restrictive Political Environment.

Sofía Gómez1, Heide Castañeda2.   

Abstract

The "DACAmented Voices in Healthcare" project examined the intersection of restrictive immigration policies and health care via photovoice, a participatory action research approach, with immigrant youth living in Arizona, who were recipients of the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program. These "DACAmented" youth took part in nine photovoice sessions exploring their health care experiences and accessibility to care using documentary photography and narratives. They poignantly illustrated their experiences through images identifying their main health concerns and strengths, facilitating the development of health policy recommendations. This article illustrates the thematic findings and discusses policy recommendations and lessons learned from presentations to policy makers and health care providers. Findings suggest that immigrant youth are knowledgeable of their family's health care needs and hold a unique and important position within mixed-status households. Health care providers can benefit from the proposed recommendations by building bridges to care to address health equity in immigrant communities.

Keywords:  Arizona; access to health care; adolescents; health disparities; health promotion; health seeking; immigrants; lived experiences; minorities; photovoice; policy; qualitative; social participation; young adults; youth

Year:  2018        PMID: 29448885     DOI: 10.1177/1049732318755580

Source DB:  PubMed          Journal:  Qual Health Res        ISSN: 1049-7323


  4 in total

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2.  Navigating a fragmented health care landscape: DACA recipients' shifting access to health care.

Authors:  Christina M Getrich; Kaelin Rapport; Alaska Burdette; Ana Ortez-Rivera; Delmis Umanzor
Journal:  Soc Sci Med       Date:  2019-01-14       Impact factor: 4.634

3.  Differences in Barriers to Healthcare and Discrimination in Healthcare Settings Among Undocumented Immigrants by Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) Status.

Authors:  Rebecca Woofter; May Sudhinaraset
Journal:  J Immigr Minor Health       Date:  2022-02-28

4.  "On Edge All the Time": Mixed-Status Households Navigating Health Care Post Arizona's Most Stringent Anti-immigrant Law.

Authors:  Sofía Gómez; Anna O O'Leary
Journal:  Front Public Health       Date:  2019-01-15
  4 in total

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