As foreign-born individuals, immigrants are less likely to have health insurance, access to healthcare and consequently, poorer health outcomes than their U.S. born or naturalized counterparts. Moreover, there are also ethnic differences among immigrants, where Latinos continue to have the highest proportion of uninsured.
Just like in the early 1990’s, the first two decades of the 2000’s have been impacted by meaningful sociopolitical events such as the Great Recession in 2008 and the adoption of the Affordable Care Act (ACA) in 2012.
These events might have modified the sociodemographic composition and health factors of immigrants in California. In this context, we ask: How have the sociodemographic profiles and health factors of immigrants in California changed in California between 2003 and 2018?