ArticleBMC public health2020
Disparities in emergency department use between Italians and migrants residing in Rome, Italy: the Rome Dynamic Longitudinal Study from 2005 to 2015.
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- Exploring differences in the utilization of the emergency department between migrant and non-migrant populations: a systematic review.BMC public health · 2024Pooled it
- Experiences and Suggestions of Nurses Involved in Caring for Migrant Populations in Italy: A Qualitative Study.Healthcare (Basel, Switzerland) · 2024Article
- Mortality differences between migrants and Italians residing in Rome before, during, and in the aftermath of the great recession. A longitudinal cohort study from 2001 to 2015.BMC public health · 2021Article
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Abstract
backgroundThe Emergency Department (ED) can be considered an indicator of accessibility and quality and can be influenced in period of economic downturns. In the last fifteen years, the number of migrants in Italy has doubled (from 2.4 million in 2005 to 5.2 in 2019, 4.1 and 8.7% of the total population, respectively). However, evidence about migrants' healthcare use is poor, and no studies focused on the ED utilisation rate during the Great Recession are available. This study aims to analyse trends in all-cause and cause-specific ED utilisation among migrants and Italians residing in Rome, Italy, before and after 2008.
methodsLongitudinal study based on data from the Municipal Register of Rome linked to the Emergency Department Register from 2005 to 2015. We analysed 2,184,467 individuals, aged 25-64 in each year. We applied a Hurdle model to estimate the propensity to use the ED and to model how often individuals accessed the ED.
resultsMigrants were less likely to be ED users than Italians, except for Africans (RR = 1.46, 95%CI 1.40-1.52) and Latin Americans (RR = 1.04, 95%CI 1.00-1.08) who had higher all-cause utilisation rates than non-migrants. Compared to the pre-2008 period, in the post-2008 we found an increase in the likelihood of being an ED user (OR = 1.34, 95%CI 1.34-1.35), and a decrease in ED utilisation rates (RR = 0.96, 95%CI 0.96-0.97) for the whole population, with differences among migrant subgroups, regardless of cause.
conclusionsThis study shows differences in the ED utilisation between migrants and Italians, and within the migrant population, during the Great Recession. The findings may reflect differentials in the health status, and barriers to access primary and secondary care among migrants. In this regard, health policies and cuts in health spending measures may have played a key role, and interventions to tackle health and access disparities should include policy measures addressing the underlying factors, adopting a Health in All Policies perspective. Further researches focusing on specific groups of migrants, and on the causes and diagnoses related to the ED utilisation, may help to explain the differences observed.
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