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This Viewpoint discusses how Emergency Medicaid offers an immediately available pathway for states to improve access to care for uninsured, lower-income noncitizens with serious health conditions.
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Medicaid , Pacientes no Asegurados , Estados Unidos , Humanos , Seguro de Salud , Factores SocioeconómicosRESUMEN
This Viewpoint highlights several key steps that states could take to expand perinatal care coverage for noncitizens.
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Emigrantes e Inmigrantes , Cobertura del Seguro , Seguro de Salud , Asistencia Médica , Atención Perinatal , Femenino , Humanos , Recién Nacido , Embarazo , Estados UnidosRESUMEN
The COVID-19 pandemic laid bare systemic inequities shaped by social determinants of health (SDoH). Public health agencies, legislators, health systems, and community organizations took notice, and there is currently unprecedented interest in identifying and implementing programs to address SDoH. This special issue focuses on the role of medical-legal partnerships (MLPs) in addressing SDoH and racial and social inequities, as well as the need to support these efforts with evidence-based research, data, and meaningful partnerships and funding.
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COVID-19 , Equidad en Salud , Humanos , Pandemias , Determinantes Sociales de la Salud , Salud PúblicaRESUMEN
Medical-legal partnerships (MLPs) integrate knowledge and practices from law and health care in pursuit of health equity. However, the MLP movement has not reached its full potential to address racial health inequities, in part because its original framing was not explicitly race conscious.
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Equidad en Salud , Racismo , Atención a la Salud , Instituciones de Salud , Inequidades en Salud , Humanos , Justicia SocialRESUMEN
The COVID-19 pandemic has shed light on the challenges of complying with public health guidance to isolate or quarantine without access to adequate income, housing, food, and other resources. When people cannot safely isolate or quarantine during an outbreak of infectious disease, a critical public health strategy fails. This article proposes integrating sociolegal needs screening and services into contact tracing as a way to mitigate public health harms and pandemic-related health inequities.
