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March 2006, Vol 96, No. 3 | American Journal of Public Health 399
© 2006 American Public Health Association
DOI: 10.2105/AJPH.2005.078253

LETTER

COLLECTION OF LEGAL STATUS INFORMATION: CAUTION!

Olivia Carter-Pokras, PhD and Ruth Enid Zambrana, PhD

Olivia Carter-Pokras is with the Department of Epidemiology and Preventive Medicine, University of Maryland School of Medicine, Baltimore. Ruth Enid Zambrana is with the Department of Women’s Studies and the Consortium on Race, Gender and Ethnicity, University of Maryland, College Park.

Correspondence: Requests for reprints should be sent to Olivia Carter-Pokras, PhD, Department of Epidemiology and Preventive Medicine, University of Maryland School of Medicine, Howard Hall, Room 140C, 660 W Redwood St, Baltimore, MD 21201 (e-mail: opokras@epi.umaryland.edu).

Because this article has no abstract, we have provided an extract of the first 100 words of the full text and any section headings.

Health care providers are increasingly called upon to collect legal status information to facilitate program enrollment and reduce uncompensated care costs. A recent Journal article suggested that collection of information on legal status in national surveys "is essential" to the study of health insurance coverage.1 Although we agree that legal status may play an important role in access to health care,2 we are concerned that collection of this information without additional safeguards to protect confidentiality and privacy could endanger the health and well-being of research participants or service recipients.

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