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November 2001, Vol 91, No. 11 | American Journal of Public Health 1736-1738
© 2001 American Public Health Association

EDITORIAL

Untangling the Web: Race/Ethnicity, Immigration, and the Nation's Health

Marsha Lillie-Blanton, DrPH and Julie Hudman, PhD

Marsha Lillie-Blanton is with the Henry J. Kaiser Family Foundation and Julie Hudman is with the Kaiser Commission on Medicaid and the Uninsured, Washington, DC.

Correspondence: Requests for reprints should be sent to Martha Lillie-Blanton, PhD, Henry J. Kaiser Family Foundation, 1450 G St, NW, Suite 250, Washington, DC 20005 (e-mail: mlillie-blanton@kff.org).


   INTRODUCTION
 
According to the 2000 census, people of color (including Hispanics and non-Hispanics who did not identify their race as White) now represent 31% of US residents.1 The US population is increasingly racially and ethnically diverse owing, in part, to immigration and higher birth rates among minority populations. Today, more than 3 in 4 immigrants (77%) come from Latin America (South America, the Caribbean, and Central America) or Asia.2 They are racially and ethnically classified in the United States as Latino/Hispanic, Asian, or African American/Black, even though most of them probably would not be classified as such in their country of . . . [Full Text]


   PUBLIC POLICIES AND IMMIGRANTS' HEALTH
 

   THE FACTS: PERCEPTION VS REALITY
 
Legal Status
Economic and Fiscal Impact
Health Coverage and Access

   THINKING FORWARD
 

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