ArticleJournal of health services research & policy2021
Healthcare utilization among migrants to the UK: cross-sectional analysis of two national surveys.
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- Proportional representation and incidence rate of repeat visits in ethnic minorities compared to native Dutch people under the age of 25 years in the Netherlands.Journal of migration and health · 2025Article
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- Heterogeneity in public health service utilization and its relationship with social integration among older adult migrants in China: a latent class analysis.Frontiers in public health · 2024Article
- The association between social integration and utilization of primary health care among migrants in China: a nationwide cross-sectional study.International journal for equity in health · 2023Article
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- Health service behaviors of migrants: A conceptual framework.Frontiers in public health · 2023Article
- Migrants' primary care utilisation before and during the COVID-19 pandemic in England: An interrupted time series analysis.The Lancet regional health. Europe · 2022Article
- The association of migration and ethnicity with use of the Improving Access to Psychological Treatment (IAPT) programme: a general population cohort study.Social psychiatry and psychiatric epidemiology · 2021Article
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objectiveTo contribute objective evidence on health care utilization among migrants to the UK to inform policy and service planning.
methodsWe analysed data from Understanding Society, a household survey with fieldwork from 2015 to 2017, and the European Health Interview Survey with data collected between 2013 and 2014. We explored health service utilization among migrants to the UK across primary care, inpatient admissions and maternity care, outpatient care, mental health, dental care and physiotherapy. We adjusted for age, sex, long-term health conditions and time since moving to the UK.
resultsHealth care utilization among migrants to the UK was lower than utilization among the UK-born population for all health care dimensions except inpatient admissions for childbirth; odds ratio (95%CI) range 0.58 (0.50-0.68) for dental care to 0.88 (0.78-0.98) for primary care). After adjusting for differences in age and self-reported health, these differences were no longer observed, except for dental care (odds ratio 0.57, 95%CI 0.49-0.66,
conclusionsThis study finds that newly arrived migrants tend to utilize less health care than the UK population and that this pattern was at least partly explained by better health, and younger age. Our findings contribute nationally representative evidence to inform public debate and decision-making on migration and health.
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