Purpose: The purpose of this paper is to empirically assess whether immigrants suffer from unequal access to health care services, that add to prevailing socioeconomic barriers to care. Design/methodology/approach: Using a uniquely rich Italian health survey, the authors estimate the correlation between immigrant status and the probability of accessing health services, conditional on a rich set of individual and territorial characteristics. Findings: Results show that foreigners are more likely to contact emergency services and less likely to visit specialist doctors and use preventive care. Similar results hold for second-generation immigrants. Originality/value: The authors discuss the sources of observed inequities and suggest tentative policy implications to promote equal access.

Inequities in immigrants’ access to health care services : disentangling potential barriers / C. Devillanova, T. Frattini. - In: INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF MANPOWER. - ISSN 0143-7720. - 37:7(2016), pp. 1191-1208. [10.1108/IJM-08-2015-0114]

Inequities in immigrants’ access to health care services : disentangling potential barriers

T. Frattini
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2016

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Purpose: The purpose of this paper is to empirically assess whether immigrants suffer from unequal access to health care services, that add to prevailing socioeconomic barriers to care. Design/methodology/approach: Using a uniquely rich Italian health survey, the authors estimate the correlation between immigrant status and the probability of accessing health services, conditional on a rich set of individual and territorial characteristics. Findings: Results show that foreigners are more likely to contact emergency services and less likely to visit specialist doctors and use preventive care. Similar results hold for second-generation immigrants. Originality/value: The authors discuss the sources of observed inequities and suggest tentative policy implications to promote equal access.
health care utilization; immigrants; inequities; Italy; strategy and management1409 tourism, leisure and hospitality management; organizational behavior and human resource management; management of technology and innovation
Settore SECS-P/01 - Economia Politica
Settore SECS-P/02 - Politica Economica
Settore SECS-P/03 - Scienza delle Finanze
2016
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