ArticleJournal of immigrant and minority health2016
Emergency Room Visits by Uninsured Child and Adult Residents in Ontario, Canada: What Diagnoses, Severity and Visit Disposition Reveal About the Impact of Being Uninsured.
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11 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it.
- Health outcomes, health services utilization, and costs consequences of medicare uninsurance among migrants in Canada: a systematic review.BMC health services research · 2023Pooled it
- All-cause and cause-specific hospitalization rates among temporary and permanent residents living in Canada: A linkage study.Canadian journal of public health = Revue canadienne de sante publique · 2025Article
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- 'We don't have the right to get sick': A qualitative study of gaps in public health insurance among Im/migrant women in British Columbia, Canada.PLOS global public health · 2023Article
- Rates of emergency room visits and hospitalizations among refugee and resident children in a tertiary hospital in Turkey.European journal of pediatrics · 2022Article
- Immigration Status as the Foundational Determinant of Health for People Without Status in Canada: A Scoping Review.Journal of immigrant and minority health · 2022Article
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- Who Deserves Health Care in a Global Pandemic?Health and human rights · 2021Article
- A Scoping Review of Current Social Emergency Medicine Research.The western journal of emergency medicine · 2021Article
- The negative self-perceived health of migrants with precarious status in Montreal, Canada: A cross-sectional study.PloS one · 2020Article
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Abstract
Canadian immigrants can be without health insurance for many reasons but limited data exists regarding uninsured health outcomes. Uninsured Canadian residents were identified in the National Ambulatory Care Reporting System for all visits to emergency departments in Ontario, Canada between 2002/3 and 2010/11 (N = 44,489,750). Frequencies for main diagnoses, severity (triage), and visit disposition were compared. Ambulatory care sensitive conditions were identified in a 10 % subsample. The uninsured (N = 140,730; 0.32 %) were more likely to be diagnosed with mental health (insured: 3.48 %; uninsured: 10.47 %) or obstetric problems (insured: 2.69 %; uninsured: 5.56 %), be triaged into the two most severe categories (insured: 11.2 %; uninsured 15.6 %), leave untreated (insured: 3.1 %; uninsured: 5.4 %), or die (insured: 2.8 %; uninsured: 3.7 %). More ACSC visits were made by uninsured children and youth. Insurance status is associated with more serious health status on arrival to emergency departments and more negative visit outcomes.
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