Current American Thoracic Society (ATS) standards promote the use of race and ethnicity-
specific reference equations for pulmonary function test (PFT) interpretation. There is rising …

Neonatal patients and families from historically marginalized and discriminated communities
have long been documented to have differential access to health care, disparate health …

Progress toward racial health equity cannot be made if we cannot measure its fundamental
driver–structural racism. As in other epidemiological studies, the first step is to measure the …

There is an increasing need to understand the structural drivers of immigrant health
inequities, including xenophobic and racist policies at the state level in the United States …

BACKGROUND Although systemic inequities, broadly defined, are associated with health
disparities in adults, there is a dearth of research linking contextual measures of …

Objectives: Immigration enforcement policies are associated with immigrants' barriers to
health care. Current evidence suggests that enforcement creates a “chilling effect” in which …

Evidence shows that state-level restrictive immigrant policies are associated with health
disparities between noncitizens and citizens. Most research has focused on Latinos and …

Background Undocumented immigrants are expected to face increased risks related to
COVID-19 due to marginalizing restrictive immigration policies. However, few studies have …

Background: African-born women have a lower risk of preterm birth and small for gestational
age (SGA) birth compared with United States-born Black women, however variation by …

Policy Points Inclusive state immigrant policies that expand rights and resources for
immigrants may improve population health, but little is known about their local‐level …