Migration Status and Utilization of Healthcare Services Among Venezuelan Immigrants in Peru.
Background: In general, migrants in illegal situations encounter a greater barrier to accessing medical care because of their migration status due to not having the required documentation to be able to obtain insurance in the receiving country. Objective: To evaluate the association between migratio...
| Publicado en: | Journal of Community Health Vol. 48; no. 6; pp. 1031 - 1038 |
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| fields | @attributes: recordID: 1 pdfLink: plink: https://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&db=ssf&AN=172842199&site=ehost-live header: @attributes: shortDbName: ssf uiTerm: 172842199 longDbName: Social Sciences Full Text (H.W. Wilson) uiTag: AN controlInfo: bkinfo: jinfo: jid: 00945145 JCH jtl: Journal of Community Health issn: 00945145 maglogo: N pubinfo: dt: Dec2023 vid: 48 iid: 6 pid: 237 pub: Springer Nature artinfo: ui: 172842199 10.1007/s10900-023-01276-8 ppf: 1031 ppct: 7 formats: fmt: – @attributes: type: T – @attributes: type: P size: 830KB tig: atl: Migration Status and Utilization of Healthcare Services Among Venezuelan Immigrants in Peru. aug: au: Hernández-Vásquez, Akram Bendezu-Quispe, Guido Azañedo, Diego affil: https://ror.org/03vgk3f90 Centro de Excelencia en Investigaciones Económicas y Sociales en Salud, Vicerrectorado de Investigación, Universidad San Ignacio de Loyola, 550 La Fontana Ave, 15024, La Molina, Peru Vicerrectorado de Investigación, Universidad Privada Norbert Wiener, Lima, Peru https://ror.org/04xr5we72 Faculty of Health Sciences, Universidad Científica del Sur, Lima, Peru su: Venezuela Peru Psychology of refugees Medical care Sex distribution Undocumented immigrants Psychosocial factors Confidence intervals Regression analysis Medical care use Surveys Questionnaires Disease prevalence Descriptive statistics Poisson distribution sug: subj: Psychology of refugees Medical care Sex distribution Undocumented immigrants Psychosocial factors Venezuela Peru Confidence intervals Regression analysis Medical care use Surveys Questionnaires Disease prevalence Descriptive statistics Poisson distribution keyword: Emigrants and Immigrants Health Services Human Migration Undocumented Immigrants Venezuelan people Emigrants and Immigrants Health Services Human Migration Undocumented Immigrants Venezuelan people ab: Background: In general, migrants in illegal situations encounter a greater barrier to accessing medical care because of their migration status due to not having the required documentation to be able to obtain insurance in the receiving country. Objective: To evaluate the association between migration status and the use of health services in the Venezuelan population residing in Peru. Methods: Data from the second Survey Directed to the Venezuelan Population Residing in Peru (ENPOVE) of 2022 were analyzed. The dependent variable was use of health services in the last month. The exposure variable was migration status (legal/illegal). Generalized linear models of the Poisson family with link log function were used to obtain crude and adjusted prevalence ratios (aPR), for potential confounding variables. Additionally, we evaluated the association of interest, stratified by gender. Findings: Data from 1569 migrants were analyzed. Participants with illegal migration status represented 32.4% (men: 24.3%; women: 36.7%); likewise, 58.1% did not use health services. Illegal migration status was associated with lower health care use (aPR: 0.75; 95%CI: 0.61–0.92). Likewise, after stratifying by sex, the association was maintained only in male migrants (aPR: 0.53; 95%CI: 0.39–0.82) but not in women (aPR: 0.84; 95%CI: 0.67–1.05). Conclusion: 58.1% of Venezuelan migrants in Peru did not seek medical attention despite having health problems. Having an illegal immigration status leads to a lower probability of using these services, especially in men. pubtype: Academic Journal doctype: Article src: R language: English refInfo: copyright: @attributes: flag: N holdings: @attributes: islocal: N |
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