Eleven million undocumented immigrants in the United States, including children, face barriers to health. By practicing 4 elements of sanctuary health care, clinicians and organizations can help.
AMA J Ethics. 2020;22(8):E741-742. doi:
10.1001/amajethics.2020.741.
This graphic storybook portrays an undocumented child in the United States who is denied fundamental human rights to health care, education, shelter, and food.
AMA J Ethics. 2019;21(1):E111-112. doi:
10.1001/amajethics.2019.111.
A fearless child inspires compassion, particularly regarding our clinical, political, and ethical orientation to ongoing practices of separating children from parents at the US southern border.
AMA J Ethics. 2020;22(2):E166-167. doi:
10.1001/amajethics.2020.166.
This first-person narrative illuminates how the author—a nurse, artist, and dancer—uses the arts and movement to help patients and clinicians process personal loss individually and collectively in the hospital setting.
AMA J Ethics. 2022;24(7):E681-684. doi:
10.1001/amajethics.2022.681.
James F. Thrasher, PhD, Amira Osman, MPH, and Dien Anshari, MS
Existing scientific evidence suggests that HWLs that graphically illustrate the harms of smoking should be used to effectively inform consumers and would-be consumers about these risks, but legal challenges from the tobacco industry have delayed their implementation.