On Monday, May 7, 2018 Professor Nancy Burke gave the keynote talk at the University of California, San Francisco Global Oral Health Symposium. Entitled “Immigration: A social determinant of oral health?”, Prof. Burke’s talk brought together recent public health research which increasingly calls for the recognition of immigration policy as a social determinant of health and her own research on oral health disparities among Mexican immigrant families. The abstract for her talk is below:
Abstract
Heightened immigration enforcement and historical levels of deportation in the United States in recent years have resulted in negative impacts on health. In this context social science and public health researchers have argued for a broader examination of immigration as socially determined and as a social determinant of health. Through examination of research conducted in California’s coastal and Central Valley regions, I outline the ways that changing immigration policy impacts oral healthcare access and utilization, quality of care, and oral health outcomes, and contend that these social and economic policies and inequalities influence oral health as much as biological processes occurring within the mouth.
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