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On November 28, 2017, the the National Academies Roundtable on the Promotion of Health Equity held a one-day workshop in Oakland, California, on Immigration as a Social Determinant of Health. This public workshop featured invited speaker presentations and discussions on the history of immigration laws and policies and how these laws and policies affect not only immigrant health, but population health more broadly. Workshop materials such as agenda, speaker biosketches, speaker presentations, and relevant resources are available on the right side of the webpage.
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Immigration as a Social Determinant of Health: Proceedings of a Workshop
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·2018
Since 1965 the foreign-born population of the United States has swelled from 9.6 million or 5 percent of the population to 45 million or 14 percent in 2015. Today, about one-quarter of the U.S. population consists of immigrants or the children of immigrants. Given the sizable representation of immig...
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