Association of Maternal Eligibility for the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals Program With Citizen Children's Participation in the Women, Infants, and Children Program

Maya Venkataramani; Craig Evan Pollack; Lisa Ross DeCamp; Kathryn M Leifheit; Zackary D Berger; Atheendar S Venkataramani

doi:10.1001/jamapediatrics.2018.0775

Association of Maternal Eligibility for the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals Program With Citizen Children's Participation in the Women, Infants, and Children Program

JAMA Pediatr. 2018 Jul 1;172(7):699-701. doi: 10.1001/jamapediatrics.2018.0775.

Authors

Maya Venkataramani¹, Craig Evan Pollack¹, Lisa Ross DeCamp², Kathryn M Leifheit^{2

3}, Zackary D Berger^{1

4}, Atheendar S Venkataramani^{5

6}

Affiliations

¹ Division of General Internal Medicine, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland.
² Department of Pediatrics, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland.
³ Department of Epidemiology, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, Baltimore, Maryland.
⁴ Johns Hopkins Berman Institute of Bioethics, Baltimore, Maryland.
⁵ Department of Medical Ethics and Health Policy, Perelman School of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia.
⁶ Leonard Davis Institute of Health Economics, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia.

Abstract

This study examines the association of maternal eligibility for Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) immigration program with participation of citizen children in the Women, Infants, and Children (WIC) health care and supplemental nutrition program.

MeSH terms

Child
Child, Preschool
Emigration and Immigration / legislation & jurisprudence*
Female
Government Programs
Health Services Accessibility / legislation & jurisprudence*
Humans
Infant
Mothers
Undocumented Immigrants / statistics & numerical data*
United States

Grants and funding

P2C HD044964/HD/NICHD NIH HHS/United States