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Health Care for All: Undocumented Migrants and the COVID-19 Pandemic in Alberta, Canada—A Scoping Review

• What can be learned about the healthcare access of undocumented workers? How can health equity be advanced through sensitivity to the process of precaritization and the precarities informing their lives? • Thailand and Spain are the only countries in the world that offer the same healthcare access...

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Autores principales: Sanchez, Marian C., Nyarko, Deborah, Mulji, Jenna, Džunić, Anja, Surti, Monica, Mangat, Avneet, Mainali, Dikshya, Spitzer, Denise L.
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Elsevier 2023
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10249367/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/37317684
http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jmh.2023.100192
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author Sanchez, Marian C.
Nyarko, Deborah
Mulji, Jenna
Džunić, Anja
Surti, Monica
Mangat, Avneet
Mainali, Dikshya
Spitzer, Denise L.
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Nyarko, Deborah
Mulji, Jenna
Džunić, Anja
Surti, Monica
Mangat, Avneet
Mainali, Dikshya
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description • What can be learned about the healthcare access of undocumented workers? How can health equity be advanced through sensitivity to the process of precaritization and the precarities informing their lives? • Thailand and Spain are the only countries in the world that offer the same healthcare access to undocumented migrants as citizens. Most European countries only offer emergency services: France, the Netherlands, Portugal, Spain, and Switzerland allow undocumented migrants to access similar services to citizens if they meet conditions (proof of identity; length of residence in the country). European cities such as Ghent, Frankfurt, and Dusseldorf, offer barrier-free healthcare. Throughout the USA, Federally Qualified Health Centers support care to the uninsured regardless of immigration status. • In Canada, Ontario and Quebec, provide a base level of healthcare access to undocumented migrants, and a small number of stand-alone community-based clinics offer additional care and specialized services. • To promote healthcare for undocumented migrants in Alberta, barrier-free access to vaccination, COVID-19 treatment, and proof of vaccinations are essential, but an equity lens to healthcare service— informed by analytic understanding and robust approach to precaritization as a social determinant, is most needed.
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spelling pubmed-102493672023-06-08 Health Care for All: Undocumented Migrants and the COVID-19 Pandemic in Alberta, Canada—A Scoping Review Sanchez, Marian C. Nyarko, Deborah Mulji, Jenna Džunić, Anja Surti, Monica Mangat, Avneet Mainali, Dikshya Spitzer, Denise L. J Migr Health Article • What can be learned about the healthcare access of undocumented workers? How can health equity be advanced through sensitivity to the process of precaritization and the precarities informing their lives? • Thailand and Spain are the only countries in the world that offer the same healthcare access to undocumented migrants as citizens. Most European countries only offer emergency services: France, the Netherlands, Portugal, Spain, and Switzerland allow undocumented migrants to access similar services to citizens if they meet conditions (proof of identity; length of residence in the country). European cities such as Ghent, Frankfurt, and Dusseldorf, offer barrier-free healthcare. Throughout the USA, Federally Qualified Health Centers support care to the uninsured regardless of immigration status. • In Canada, Ontario and Quebec, provide a base level of healthcare access to undocumented migrants, and a small number of stand-alone community-based clinics offer additional care and specialized services. • To promote healthcare for undocumented migrants in Alberta, barrier-free access to vaccination, COVID-19 treatment, and proof of vaccinations are essential, but an equity lens to healthcare service— informed by analytic understanding and robust approach to precaritization as a social determinant, is most needed. Elsevier 2023-06-08 /pmc/articles/PMC10249367/ /pubmed/37317684 http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jmh.2023.100192 Text en © 2023 The Authors. Published by Elsevier Ltd. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/This is an open access article under the CC BY-NC-ND license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/).
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Health Care for All: Undocumented Migrants and the COVID-19 Pandemic in Alberta, Canada—A Scoping Review
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