Brief Report: State Policy Contexts and Disability Risks Among Midlife Working-Age Latino Adults in the U.S.: Variation by Nativity and Citizenship Status
摘要
Disability risks among midlife Latino adults in the United States are strongly patterned along axes of stratification such as nativity and citizenship status. Another increasingly salient axis of inequality in disability risk is geographic context, such as U.S. state political environments. While prior research highlights the importance of specific state policies, such as Medicaid, in shaping health-related outcomes, few studies have examined how broader policy contexts and ideologies, such as policy liberalism, influence disability risk, particularly among Latino adults. This study combines data from the 2008–2019 American Community Survey (ACS) with state-level measures of overall, economic, and social policy liberalism to examine how these dimensions of policy context influence disability risks among a diverse sample of midlife working-age Latino adults (