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This policy watch discusses the implications for the U.S. health care workforce of the recent DOS immigrant visa pause for individuals from 75 countries deemed more likely to be a public charge.
This issue brief provides an overview of a new data sharing agreement for CMS to share Medicaid data with ICE and its potential implications for health care access and data privacy.
AIAN individuals experience significant health disparities compared to their White counterparts. People who identified as AIAN alone have shorter life expectancies (70.1 vs 78.4 years at birth), higher rates of chronic diseases, and higher rates of suicide deaths and substance use disorder.
Due to a combination of lower coverage rates, additional access barriers, and historical and ongoing discrimination, AIAN people continue to face significant disparities in health and health care.
This brief includes data on pregnancy and birth outcomes by race and ethnicity, describes the underlying factors driving disparities, and discusses current policies affecting maternal and infant health disparities.
Data show that children’s vaccination rates, including MMR and seasonal flu vaccines, have declined in recent years largely due to decreases in vaccinations among White and Asian children. At the same time, and despite the declines among White and Asian children, Black and AIAN children remain least likely to have received recommended childhood vaccinations and the MMR vaccine specifically.
This issue brief reviews the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) final rule that would rescind 2022 Biden-era public charge determination regulations. The public charge changes along with other Trump administration policy changes will likely lead to decreased participation in public programs, including Medicaid, among a broad group of immigrant families, including citizen children in those families.
This analysis examines the share of noncitizen and citizen adults currently living in the U.S. who have one of the health conditions identified in new State Department guidance for visa screening.
This issue brief provides an overview of refugees and asylees in the U.S., trends in refugee and asylee admissions using data from the Department of Homeland Security (DHS), and recent changes in eligibility for assistance programs for refugees and asylees.
Since President Trump took office in January 2025, four in ten immigrant adults say they have experienced negative health impacts due to immigration-related worries and about one in five say their child’s well-being has been impacted. Many also report skipping or delaying health care and avoiding applying for or stopping participation in government assistance programs, with some of the largest impacts among likely undocumented immigrants and immigrant parents.
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