Health Care and Children in Immigrant Families
Project Summary
One in five children in America today lives in an immigrant family. One in three children without health insurance lives in an immigrant family. The majority of these children are citizens and potentially eligible for, but currently not receiving, health care benefits. Most of their parents are working, but in jobs that do not provide health insurance.
Through a generous grant from the David and Lucile Packard Foundation, NCSL will bring state policymakers and researchers together to share expertise across the health and immigration fields. Our focus will be legislators’ leadership development, technical assistance and building networks between and among policymakers involved in children’s health and immigrant issues. For more information click here.
- Health Care Access for Immigrant Children in Immigrant Families: A Primer for State Legislators (April 2008)
- Immigration Debate Continues: Who Should get Health Care? (State Health Notes, July 23, 2007)
- Federal Law Reimburses Hospitals for Treating Undocumented Immigrants: A Primer on "Section 1011" (State Health Notes, April 16, 2007)
- Georgia Considers How to Adapt to SCHIP Funding Shortfall (State Health Notes, March 5, 2007)
- Washington Joins States Looking to Insure all Kids (State Health Notes, March 19, 2007)
- States see SCHIP as one Route to Covering Children (State Health Notes, March 19, 2007)
- Wisconsin Governor Looks to Cover All (State Health Notes, February 19, 2007)
- Annotated Bibliography on Health of Immigrant Children (January 2007)
- Diversity Rx
The Sixth National Conference on Quality Health Care for Culturally Diverse Populations will be held September 21-24, 2008 in Minneapolis, Minnesota.
NCSL was an original founder of the DiversityRx website, devoted to language and cultural competence in health care. NCSL will be one of the partners of this conference. For more information, please visit http://www.diversityrxconference.org/
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Last Updated- April 30, 2008
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