Health Through a Human Right Lens at the US-Mexico Border: Increasing Access to Healthcare for Central American Immigrants

The number of immigrants seeking entry into the U.S. through asylum requests or through irregular means is increasing, and most come from the Northern Triangle of El Salvador, Guatemala, and Honduras. Immigrants come fleeing extreme poverty, violence, health and social inequities, and drastic climat...

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Autores principales: Venturi, Carolina, Guízar-Sánchez, Diana, Ramos-Tovar, María Elena, Torres, Melissa, Avellaneda, Flor D., Torres-Hostos, Luis R., Matuk-Villazon, Omar
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Publicado: Frontiers Media S.A. 2022
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9315280/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/35903375
http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fpubh.2022.858402
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author Venturi, Carolina
Guízar-Sánchez, Diana
Ramos-Tovar, María Elena
Torres, Melissa
Avellaneda, Flor D.
Torres-Hostos, Luis R.
Matuk-Villazon, Omar
author_facet Venturi, Carolina
Guízar-Sánchez, Diana
Ramos-Tovar, María Elena
Torres, Melissa
Avellaneda, Flor D.
Torres-Hostos, Luis R.
Matuk-Villazon, Omar
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description The number of immigrants seeking entry into the U.S. through asylum requests or through irregular means is increasing, and most come from the Northern Triangle of El Salvador, Guatemala, and Honduras. Immigrants come fleeing extreme poverty, violence, health and social inequities, and drastic climate changes. Most had limited access to healthcare at home, and even more limited care along the journey. Those that are allowed entry into the U.S., are confronted with feeling unwelcome in many communities, having to navigate an array of local, state, and federal laws that regulate access to healthcare. We need immigration policies that preserve the health, dignity with a multinational policy for provision of healthcare through a human rights lens from point of origin to point of destination.
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spelling pubmed-93152802022-07-27 Health Through a Human Right Lens at the US-Mexico Border: Increasing Access to Healthcare for Central American Immigrants Venturi, Carolina Guízar-Sánchez, Diana Ramos-Tovar, María Elena Torres, Melissa Avellaneda, Flor D. Torres-Hostos, Luis R. Matuk-Villazon, Omar Front Public Health Public Health The number of immigrants seeking entry into the U.S. through asylum requests or through irregular means is increasing, and most come from the Northern Triangle of El Salvador, Guatemala, and Honduras. Immigrants come fleeing extreme poverty, violence, health and social inequities, and drastic climate changes. Most had limited access to healthcare at home, and even more limited care along the journey. Those that are allowed entry into the U.S., are confronted with feeling unwelcome in many communities, having to navigate an array of local, state, and federal laws that regulate access to healthcare. We need immigration policies that preserve the health, dignity with a multinational policy for provision of healthcare through a human rights lens from point of origin to point of destination. Frontiers Media S.A. 2022-07-12 /pmc/articles/PMC9315280/ /pubmed/35903375 http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fpubh.2022.858402 Text en Copyright © 2022 Venturi, Guízar-Sánchez, Ramos-Tovar, Torres, Avellaneda, Torres-Hostos and Matuk-Villazon. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY). The use, distribution or reproduction in other forums is permitted, provided the original author(s) and the copyright owner(s) are credited and that the original publication in this journal is cited, in accordance with accepted academic practice. No use, distribution or reproduction is permitted which does not comply with these terms.
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Venturi, Carolina
Guízar-Sánchez, Diana
Ramos-Tovar, María Elena
Torres, Melissa
Avellaneda, Flor D.
Torres-Hostos, Luis R.
Matuk-Villazon, Omar
Health Through a Human Right Lens at the US-Mexico Border: Increasing Access to Healthcare for Central American Immigrants
title Health Through a Human Right Lens at the US-Mexico Border: Increasing Access to Healthcare for Central American Immigrants
title_full Health Through a Human Right Lens at the US-Mexico Border: Increasing Access to Healthcare for Central American Immigrants
title_fullStr Health Through a Human Right Lens at the US-Mexico Border: Increasing Access to Healthcare for Central American Immigrants
title_full_unstemmed Health Through a Human Right Lens at the US-Mexico Border: Increasing Access to Healthcare for Central American Immigrants
title_short Health Through a Human Right Lens at the US-Mexico Border: Increasing Access to Healthcare for Central American Immigrants
title_sort health through a human right lens at the us-mexico border: increasing access to healthcare for central american immigrants
topic Public Health
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9315280/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/35903375
http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fpubh.2022.858402
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