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ReviewBMJ global health2021

Deservingness: migration and health in social context.

Seth M Holmes, Ernesto Castañeda, Jeremy Geeraert, Heide Castaneda, Ursula Probst, Nina Zeldes, Sarah S Willen, Yusupha Dibba, Raphael Frankfurter, Anne Kveim Lie and 3 more

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Review in BMJ global health, 2021. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 20 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.

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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

13 authors.

Seth M HolmesSociety and Environment, Medical Anthropology, and Public Health, University of California Berkeley, Berkeley, California, USA sethmholmes@berkeley.edu.ORCID 0000-0002-2244-2868
Ernesto CastañedaSociology, American University, Washington, DC, USA.
Jeremy GeeraertEuropean Ethnology, Humboldt University of Berlin, Berlin, Germany.
Heide CastanedaAnthropology, University of South Florida, Tampa, Florida, USA.
Ursula ProbstInstitute for Social and Cultural Anthropology, Free University of Berlin, Berlin, Germany.ORCID 0000-0002-6445-1949
Nina ZeldesInstitute for Social and Cultural Anthropology, Free University of Berlin, Berlin, Germany.
Sarah S WillenAnthropology, University of Connecticut, Storrs, Connecticut, USA.ORCID 0000-0002-0827-0510
Yusupha DibbaPartners in Health, Freetown, Sierra Leone.
Raphael FrankfurterSchool of Medicine, University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, California, USA.
Anne Kveim LieInstitute of Health and Society, University of Oslo, Oslo, Norway.
John Fredrik AskjerInstitute of Health and Society, University of Oslo, Oslo, Norway.
Heidi FjeldInstitute of Health and Society, University of Oslo, Oslo, Norway.ORCID 0000-0003-0182-9155
Migration and Health in Social Context Working Group

Funding

MEDICAL SCIENTIST TRAINING PROGRAMT32GM007618 · NIGMS · UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, SAN FRANCISCO · PI ANDERSON, MARK S · 1985 to 2020
$29.6M
NIGMS NIH HHS T32 GM007618
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

This article brings the social science concept of 'deservingness' to bear on clinical cases of transnational migrant patients. Based on the authors' medical social science research, health delivery practice and clinical work from multiple locations in Africa. Europe and the Americas, the article describes three clinical cases in which assumptions of deservingness have significant implications for the morbidity and mortality of migrant patients. The concept of deservingness allows us to maintain a critical awareness of the often unspoken presumptions of which categories of patients are more or less deserving of access to and quality of care, regardless of their formal legal eligibility. Many transnational migrants with ambiguous legal status who rely on public healthcare experience exclusion from care or poor treatment based on notions of deservingness held by health clinic staff, clinicians and health system planners. The article proposes several implications for clinicians, health professional education, policymaking and advocacy. A critical lens on deservingness can help global health professionals, systems and policymakers confront and change entrenched patterns of unequal access to and differential quality of care for migrant patients. In this way, health professionals can work more effectively for global health equity.

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Transients and MigrantsAfricaEuropeGlobal HealthHumansSocial Environmenthealth policies and all other topicshealth systemspublic healthqualitative studytreatment

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PMID33827795
PMCPMC8031028

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