| Access to health-care in Canadian immigrants: a longitudinal study of the National Population Health Survey. | |
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PMID: 21054621 Owner: NLM Status: In-Data-Review |
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Immigrants often lose their health advantage as they start adapting to the ways of the new society. Having access to care when it is needed is one way that individuals can maintain their health. We assessed the healthcare access in Canadian immigrants and the socioeconomic factors associated with access over a 12-year period. We compared two measures of healthcare access (having a regular doctor and reporting an unmet healthcare need in the past 12 months) among immigrants and Canadian-born men and women, aged more than 18 years. We applied a logistic random effects model to evaluate these outcomes separately, in 3081 males and 4187 females from the National Population Health Survey (1994-2006). Adjusting for all covariates, immigrant men and women (white and non-white) had similar odds of having a regular doctor than the Canadian-born individuals (white immigrants: males OR: 1.32, 95% C.I.: 0.89-1.94, females OR: 1.14, 95% C.I.: 0.78-1.66; non-white immigrants: males OR: 1.28, 95% C.I.: 0.73-2.23, females OR: 1.23, 95% C.I.: 0.64-2.36). Interestingly, non-white immigrant women had significantly fewer unmet health needs (OR: 0.32, 95% C.I.: 0.17-0.59). Among immigrants, time since immigration was associated with having access to a regular doctor (OR per year: 1.02, 95% C.I.: 1.00-1.04). Visible minority female immigrants were least likely to report an unmet healthcare need. In general, there is little evidence that immigrants have worse access to health-care than the Canadian-born population. |
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Maninder Singh Setia; Amelie Quesnel-Vallee; Michal Abrahamowicz; Pierre Tousignant; John Lynch |
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Type: Journal Article Date: 2010-09-09 |
Journal Detail:
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Title: Health & social care in the community Volume: 19 ISSN: 1365-2524 ISO Abbreviation: Health Soc Care Community Publication Date: 2011 Jan |
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Created Date: 2010-12-14 Completed Date: - Revised Date: - |
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Nlm Unique ID: 9306359 Medline TA: Health Soc Care Community Country: England |
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Languages: eng Pagination: 70-9 Citation Subset: IM |
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© 2010 Blackwell Publishing Ltd. |
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Department of Epidemiology, Biostatistics, and Occupational Health, McGill University, Montreal, QC, Canada Department of Sociology, McGill University, Montreal, QC, Canada School of Health Sciences, University of South Australia, Adelaide, SA, Australia Department of Social Medicine, University of Bristol, Bristol, UK. |
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