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Research has shown that migrant status coincides with disparities in the use of hospital services. Migrants tend to use Accident and Emergency (A&E) departments rather than hospital services and they resort to A&E more than native-born individuals.<\/p>\n
This recently published study<\/a> by the International Journal of Public Health<\/a> aimed to analyse the characteristics of A&E access, process management and outcome, after grouping patients by their citizenship in an urban area in Italy, where large-scale immigration is a relatively recent phenomenon.<\/p>\n The study used data from a record linkage database from a local health unit in the Veneto Region in North East Italy. Data for more than 35,500 adults visiting the A&E in 2010 were collected.<\/p>\n The results showed an underutilisation of primary care services, as well as use of A&E for nonurgent conditions for all nationalities, including natives. Illegal migrants were more frequently hospitalised after A&E visits than other groups.<\/p>\n The authors conclude that it is necessary to educate the whole population, including foreigners, to use the services of A&E departments properly. It is also important to offer people an alternative solution that is as convenient and accessible as the A&E.<\/p>\n ***********************************************************************************************************************<\/p>\n This paper was written by Alessandra Buja<\/a>, Marco Fusco, Patrizia Furlan, Chiara Bertoncello, Tatjana Baldobvin<\/a>, Patrizia Casale<\/a>, and Adriano Marcolongo<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Research has shown that migrant status coincides with disparities in the use of hospital services. Migrants tend to use Accident and Emergency (A&E) departments rather than hospital services and they resort to A&E more than native-born individuals. This recently published study by the International Journal of Public Health aimed to analyse the characteristics of… Read more »<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":301,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10,11],"tags":[28,32,162,469,575],"class_list":["post-931","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-hot-off-the-press","category-international-journal-of-public-health","tag-ae","tag-accident-and-emergency","tag-citizenship","tag-italy","tag-migrants"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.springer.com\/ijph\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/931","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.springer.com\/ijph\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.springer.com\/ijph\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.springer.com\/ijph\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/301"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.springer.com\/ijph\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=931"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.springer.com\/ijph\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/931\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.springer.com\/ijph\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=931"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.springer.com\/ijph\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=931"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.springer.com\/ijph\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=931"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}