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Ben Wilson

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A Universal Health Care System? Unmet Need for Medical Care Among Regular and Irregular Immigrants in Italy

2017

Italy has a universal health care system that covers, in principle, the whole resident population, irrespective of citizenship and legal status. This study calculates the prevalence of unmet need for medical care among Italian citizens, regular and irregular immigrants and estimates logistic regression models to assess whether differences by citizenship and legal status hold true once adjusting for potential confounders. The analysis is based on two Surveys on Income and Living Conditions of Italian households and households with foreigners. Controlling for various factors, the odds of experiencing unmet need for medical care are 27% higher for regular immigrants than for Italian citizens a…

SociologiEpidemiologyHealth StatusImmigration Legal status&nbspVulnerabilityUnmet need  Health care access  Immigrants  Legal status  Italy Health Services AccessibilityState MedicineUnmet need&nbsp0302 clinical medicineSociologyHealth care030212 general & internal medicineSociologyCitizenshiphealth care economics and organizationsmedia_commoneducation.field_of_studyUndocumented ImmigrantsAge FactorsPublic Health Global Health Social Medicine and EpidemiologyItalyLegal status0305 other medical scienceUnmet needmedicine.medical_specialtymedia_common.quotation_subject Immigrants&nbspPopulationEmigrants and Immigrants Italy&nbspHV Social pathology. Social and public welfare. CriminologyOdds03 medical and health sciencesSex FactorsImmigrantsmedicineHumanseducationPovertyDG Italy030505 public healthPovertybusiness.industryPublic healthPublic Health Environmental and Occupational HealthSettore SECS-S/04 - DemografiaHealth care access&nbspJV Colonies and colonization. Emigration and immigration. International migrationFolkhälsovetenskap global hälsa socialmedicin och epidemiologiSocioeconomic FactorsChronic DiseaseRA Public aspects of medicineHealth care accessSocial CapitalbusinessDemography
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Measuring Vulnerability of Asylum Seekers and Refugees in Italy

2019

In recent years, a growing number of forced migrants have travelled to Italy across the Mediterranean Sea. While the number of new arrivals has diminished since 2017, the Italian reception system still struggles to process the high number of applications for international protection. A significant proportion of forced migrants who arrive in Italy end up living in informal settlements, such as occupied buildings, shacks, containers and tented camps. In this study, we assess the vulnerability of asylum seekers and refugees living in informal settlements in Italy, using data from the first nationally representative survey of this population. We compare a count measure of vulnerability with a n…

vulnerability assessment latent trait model indicators survey data informal settlementRefugee05 social sciences0507 social and economic geographyVulnerabilitySettore SECS-S/04 - Demografia0506 political scienceMediterranean seaArts and Humanities (miscellaneous)Vulnerability assessment050602 political science & public administrationSurvey data collectionSettore SECS-S/05 - Statistica SocialeSocioeconomics050703 geographyDemography
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