%0 Journal Article
%T Immigrants, Place, and Health: Destination Area Health Contexts and Routine Physician and Dental Care for Children of Mexican Immigrants
%A Chris Galvan
%A Deborah R. Graefe
%A Gordon F. De Jong
%A Stephanie Howe Hasanali
%J International Migration Review
%@ 1747-7379
%D 2019
%R 10.1177/0197918318789128
%X Notable healthcare disparities are shown among the children of Mexican immigrants across different Hispanic immigrant destinations. A hostile local immigrant-receptivity climate and alternative institutional community context indicators are integrated with individual-level data on physician and dental care from the 1996 and 2001 Survey of Income and Program Participation to explain this variation. Mexican immigrants¡¯ children in new Hispanic immigrant destinations are 20 percent less likely to see a doctor, and a negative receptivity climate explains about half of this effect. Community health clinic availability and greater state leniency toward immigrant child public health insurance eligibility facilitate healthcare access
%K immigrant
%K children
%K health
%K policy
%K clinics
%U https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/0197918318789128