ArticleJournal of immigrant and minority health2016
Comparison of Health Care Resource Utilization by Immigrants Versus Native Elderly People.
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- The Neurosurgical Immigrant Experience in Italy: Analysis of a Northeast Tertiary Center.Healthcare (Basel, Switzerland) · 2025Article
- Barriers, Resources and Reserves Shaping Older Migrants' Access to Healthcare: A Research Imperative for Switzerland.International journal of public health · 2025Article
- Immigration, Educational Attainment, and Subjective Health in the United States.Journal of mental health & clinical psychology · 2024Article
- Barriers to Accessing Primary Care and Appropriateness of Healthcare Among Immigrants in Italy.Frontiers in public health · 2022Article
- Older patients' perspectives and experience of hospitalisation during the COVID-19 pandemic: a qualitative explorative study.International journal of older people nursing · 2021Article
- Disparities in emergency department use between Italians and migrants residing in Rome, Italy: the Rome Dynamic Longitudinal Study from 2005 to 2015.BMC public health · 2020Article
- A systematic review of the use of health services by immigrants and native populations.Public health reviewsReview
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Abstract
To compare the utilization of health care resources (drug prescriptions, hospital admissions and health care services) by immigrant versus native elderly people (65 years or more), by using administrative database of the Lombardy Region. For each immigrant (an older people born out of Italy), one person born in Lombardy (native) was randomly selected and matched by age, sex and general practitioner. The 25,508 immigrants selected were less prescribed with at least one drug (OR 0.72, 95 % CI 0.67-0.76) and had a lesser use of health care services (OR 0.79, 95 % CI 0.75-0.84) than natives. No statistically significant differences were found for hospital admission rates (OR 0.99, 95 % CI 0.99-1.04). A lower rate of health care resource utilization was observed in elderly immigrants who had been living in the host region for as many as 10 years.
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