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Unmet Healthcare Needs and Related Factors Among Immigrants: A Cross-Sectional Secondary Analysis of 2019 Korea Community Health Survey Data.
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- Duration of Residence, Enabling Conditions, and Unmet Healthcare Needs Among Immigrants in South Korea: A Pooled Repeated Cross-Sectional Analysis.Journal of immigrant and minority health · 2026Article
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- Factors Related to Unmet Healthcare Needs among Immigrants in South Korea.Journal of immigrant and minority health · 2025Article
- An Integrative Path Model of Healthcare Utilization Determinants in Traditional Korean Medicine and Western Medicine Based on the Anderson Behavioral Model.Healthcare (Basel, Switzerland) · 2025Article
- Determinants of the lost to follow-up status among patients with tuberculosis who emigrated to the Republic of Korea: a mixed-method study.Frontiers in public health · 2025Article
- National Trends in the Prevalence of Unmet Health Care and Dental Care Needs During the COVID-19 Pandemic: Longitudinal Study in South Korea, 2009-2022.JMIR public health and surveillance · 2024Article
- Factors associated with the uptake of COVID-19 vaccination, testing and medical care among Myanmar migrants in Japan: a cross-sectional study.Tropical medicine and health · 2024Article
- Risk of loss to follow-up among tuberculosis patients in South Korea: whom should we focus on?Frontiers in public health · 2023Observational
- Unmet Healthcare Needs in Unstable Jobs: Perspectives from Low-Skilled Migrant Workers in South Korea.Inquiry : a journal of medical care organization, provision and financingArticle
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Abstract
Immigrants in Korea face numerous difficulties in seeking medical services due to language and cultural differences. Providing medical services to them could be beyond the institutional capacity of the host country owing to factors such as, physical and psychological problems, social unrest, language barriers, and problems adapting to unfamiliar environments. According to Andersen's health service use behavioral model, we used a multifaceted approach to explore the factors influencing the unmet healthcare needs of immigrants in Korea from the Korean health system. This cross-sectional secondary analysis study used data from the 2019 Korea Community Health Survey of 3524 immigrants. Their unmet healthcare needs were calculated using a complex, weighted sample design. Group differences in categorical variables were analyzed using the Rao-Scott chi-square test. Logistic regression analysis was used to analyze the association between unmet healthcare needs and ageing factors. Overall, 262 (7.4%) of surveyed immigrants experienced unmet healthcare needs. Factors influencing unmet healthcare needs were being a woman (OR = 1.41, 95% CI = 1.03-1.94), national primary livelihood security receiver (OR = 1.44, 95% CI = 1.29-1.68), stress (OR = 1.34, 95% CI = 1.26-1.45), perceived health status (poor: OR = 2.35, 95% CI = 1.58-3.52), and perceived health status (moderate: OR = 1.62, 95% CI = 1.18-2.20). Policymakers could focus on these predictors when formulating policy strategies to reduce unmet health care needs. In addition, by effectively delivering services that meet the unmet healthcare needs of immigrants, their right to health is protected.
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