Contextualizing immigrant access to health resources.
A vast majority of our understanding of immigrant health centers around traits of individuals and groups. While useful, current approaches to research on immigrant health decontextualize the experience of immigrants in the United States. This paper uses a historical case study of the Chinese community in San Francisco to develop a contextual framework to understand the levels of influence that impact the availability of health resources in immigrant communities. International, transnational, transcommunity, and enclave contexts have shaped health care access for Chinese immigrants in San Francisco. The conceptual framework provides a basis for future research, programmatic, and policy work that integrates individual and contextual factors in assessing and improving immigrant access to health resources.
Yang
Joshua S
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Center for Tobacco Control Research and Education, University of California-San Francisco, 530 Parnassus Avenue, San Francisco, CA 94143-1390, USA. joshua.yang@ucsf.edu
D000069:Acculturation; D001213:Asian / Q000706:statistics & numerical data*; D002140:California; D002681:China / Q000208:ethnology; D054242:Emigrants and Immigrants / Q000706:statistics & numerical data*; D005006:Ethnicity; D006295:Health Resources / Q000706:statistics & numerical data*; D006297:Health Services Accessibility / Q000706:statistics & numerical data*; D006801:Humans; D038622:Internationality; D012111:Residence Characteristics; D012495:San Francisco; D014481:United States