MFP/ANA e-Newsletter: July 1, 2022

HEALTH DISPARITY RELATED ARTICLES

Immigration policies as political determinants of alcohol and drug misuse among US-born Latinos (opens new window)

The role of immigration policies as political determinants of health among US-born Latinos is significantly understudied. Immigration policies can produce immigration-related stressors that have ‘spill over’ effects on the health behaviors of US-born Latinos. However, less is known about how immigration-related stressors relate to substance misuse among US-born Latinos. Read more (opens new window)

Issues Impacting LGBTQ Youth (opens new window): Polling Analysis (opens new window)

Three-quarters of LGBTQ youth are following recent news about issues that impact the transgender community. Tangentially, two-thirds of LGBTQ youth report that the recent debates about state laws restricting the rights of transgender people has impacted their mental health negatively. This impact is even more dramatic among transgender and/or non-binary youth, where more than four in five of them (85%) report it has impacted their mental health negatively. Read more (opens new window)

Health care in jails and prisons is terrible. The pandemic made it even worse (opens new window)

America’s 1.7 million incarcerated people have a constitutional right to medical treatment. During the pandemic, many of them say they didn’t get it in time. When 25-year-old Clayton McCray was sent to jail in September 2019, he had no idea the detention would end up costing him his leg. But that’s what happened, in large part because the pandemic exacerbated his poor medical treatment behind bars.  (opens new window)Read more (opens new window)

Black ER patients are less likely to receive follow-up care, and this project is examining why (opens new window)

Follow-up care is often crucial for patients after an emergency room visit. But Black patients in Michigan are much less likely to return for follow-up care than white patients – in some cases by 20% to 30%. The reasons for – and solutions to – this gap are the subject of a new project led by Dr. Sabrina Ford, an associate professor in the Michigan State University College of Medicine Institute for Health Policy. Read more (opens new window)