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LPPI expert Arturo Vargas Bustamante discusses specific policies implemented at the state and local level that likely created the marginal increases in health insurance coverage for undocumented immigrants that were excluded from the Affordable Care Act nationally.
Read More | May 29, 2020
LPPI Executive Director Sonja Diaz wrote an Op-Ed focused on the Latino physician crisis in California and the urgency to address health disparities that harm the Latino population.
Melissa Chinchilla, a LPPI expert, published a study on the Latino homeless population in LA and found they are disproportionately disadvantaged in outreach programs.
‘The Current State of the Latino Physician Workforce: California Faces a Shortfall in Latino Resident Physicians’ compares Latino residents in the four states with the largest Latino populations: California, Texas, Florida , and New York and finds that Latino resident physicians are most severely underrepresented in California. Read the full press release here.
‘Latino Physician Shortage in California: The Provider Prospective’ finds that unequal backgrounds and opportunities, diverse career trajectories, and various barriers in the medical profession, such as underrepresentation of Latinos in the medical field or academic disadvantages, are creating major difficulties for Latino students seeking careers as physicians. Read the full press release here.
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