Access to preventive care by immigrant populations

Many immigrant populations lack access to primary health care. A recently published study on cholesterol screening among immigrant populations in the US found disparities in cholesterol screening in those originating from Mexico, largely due to limited access to healthcare. This inverse care affects...

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Autor principal: Harris, Mark Fort
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2012
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Commentary
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3378434/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/22651695
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1741-7015-10-55
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description Many immigrant populations lack access to primary health care. A recently published study on cholesterol screening among immigrant populations in the US found disparities in cholesterol screening in those originating from Mexico, largely due to limited access to healthcare. This inverse care affects immigrants in many destination countries despite their greater health need. Please see related article: http://www.equityhealthj.com/content/11/1/22
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spelling pubmed-33784342012-06-20 Access to preventive care by immigrant populations Harris, Mark Fort BMC Med Commentary Many immigrant populations lack access to primary health care. A recently published study on cholesterol screening among immigrant populations in the US found disparities in cholesterol screening in those originating from Mexico, largely due to limited access to healthcare. This inverse care affects immigrants in many destination countries despite their greater health need. Please see related article: http://www.equityhealthj.com/content/11/1/22 BioMed Central 2012-05-31 /pmc/articles/PMC3378434/ /pubmed/22651695 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1741-7015-10-55 Text en Copyright ©2012 Harris; licensee BioMed Central Ltd. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0 This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3378434/
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