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Podcast: A Health Podyssey
Episode: Many US Immigrants May Defer Health Care to Avoid ICE
Description: Sixty-eight percent of undocumented immigrants in the United States come from Mexico or Central America. As a result, deportation policies have a disproportionate effect on people of Hispanic origin.Immigration enforcement activity may influence behaviors like obtaining health care services; the effects of which can be felt throughout the community. On today's episode of A Health Podyssey, Abigail Friedman from the Yale School of Public Health joins the program to discuss the relationship between immigration enforcement and health care use. In the July issue of Health Affairs, which focuses exclusively on Borders, Immigration & Health, Dr...