The Ethics of Advocacy for Undocumented Patients
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 20336089 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Nancy Berlinger, Rajeev Raghavan (0000-0002-0610-261X) |
| Year | 2013 |
| Volume | 43 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 14-17 |
| Publication date | 2013-01-01 |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | The Hastings Center Report (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0093-0334 • E-ISSN: 1552-146X |
| Publisher | Wiley (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1002/hast.126 |
| PMID | 23315847 |
| OpenAlex | W2163503666 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 8 |
| References cited | 5 |
Approximately 11.2 million undocumented immigrants have settled in the United States. Providing health care to these residents is an everyday concern for the clinicians and health care organizations who serve them. Uncertain how to proceed in the face of severe financial constraints, clinicians may improvise remedies–a strategy that allows our society to avoid confronting the clinical and organizational implications of public policy gaps. There is no simple solution‐no quick fix‐that will work across organizations (in particular, hospitals with emergency departments) in states with different concentrations of undocumented immigrants, varying public and private resources for safety‐net health care, and differing approaches to law and policy concerning the rights of immigrants. However, every hospital can help its clinicians by addressing access to health care for undocumented immigrants as an ethical issue. We offer some recommendations for doing this in a structured, fair, and transparent way. We also describe the problems that may result when clinicians are forced to grapple with this issue on their own
Business · Face (sociological concept) · Health care · Immigration · Political science · Public health · Public relations · Safety net · Sociology · Work (physics) · Ethics in medical practice · Law · Medicine · Nursing · Patient Dignity and Privacy · Public Administration · Torture, Ethics, and Law
Should an Undocumented Immigrant Receive a Heart Transplant
Is It Ethical to Bend the Rules for Undocumented and Other Immigrant Patients
Healthcare providers' advocacy approaches and ethical challenges in delivering healthcare to undocumented migrants
The Nurse as the Patient's Advocate
Intersectionality in Healthcare Ethics
Strategies for Naming and Addressing Structural Racism in Immigrant Mental Health
A tension of rights and needs? Social work advocacy for undocumented residents in the unrecognized villages of the Negev
Administrative (in)Visibility of Patient Structural Vulnerability and the Hierarchy of Moral Distress among Health Care Staff
| Citations per year | 0.73 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 2015 - 2026 (12) |
| Highly cited | No |