Public policies play a crucial role in shaping how immigrants adapt to life in the United States. Federal, state, and local laws and administrative practices impact immigrants' access to education, health insurance and medical care, cash assistance, food assistance, and other vital services. Additionally, immigration enforcement activities have substantial effects on immigrants' health and participation in public programs, as well as effects on immigrants' families. This review summarizes the growing literature on the consequences of public policies for immigrants' health. Some policies are inclusive and promote immigrants' adaptation to the United States, whereas other policies are exclusionary and restrict immigrants' access to public programs as well as educational and economic opportunities. We explore the strategies that researchers have employed to tease out these effects, the methodological challenges of undertaking such studies, their varying impacts on immigrant health, and steps that can be undertaken to improve the health of immigrants and their families.

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排斥政策：对移民及其子女健康的影响。

公共政策在塑造移民如何适应美国生活方面发挥着至关重要的作用。联邦、州和地方法律和行政实践影响移民获得教育、健康保险和医疗保健、现金援助、食品援助和其他重要服务的机会。此外，移民执法活动对移民的健康和参与公共项目以及移民的家庭也有重大影响。本综述总结了有关公共政策对移民健康影响的越来越多的文献。有些政策是包容性的，促进移民适应美国，而另一些政策则具有排他性，限制移民参与公共项目以及教育和经济机会。我们探讨了研究人员为梳理这些影响而采用的策略、进行此类研究的方法挑战、它们对移民健康的不同影响，以及改善移民及其家人健康可以采取的步骤。