Key Learnings on the Topic of Access to Health Care for Immigrants from This Hearing

The hearing has elaborated on the various barriers immigrants face in their attempts to access healthcare services in the United States. For example, cultural barriers, language and communication barriers, stigmatization, lack of knowledge of the US healthcare system, and higher costs of care in the US. These common access barriers are either personal or systemic (Pandey et al., 2022). Healthcare access barriers lead to negative health experiences (Omenka et al., 2020), poor health services, and negative health outcomes for immigrants (Luque et al., 2018).

References

12-13-17 Public Hearing on Immigrant Health Care Access – Dec 14th, 2017. Nystateassembly.granicus.com. (2017). Retrieved 2 July 2022, from https://nystateassembly.granicus.com/MediaPlayer.php?view_id=10&clip_id=4436&meta_id=34403.