Báltica Cabieses Valdés, Marcela Oyarte Galvez, María Inés Álvarez , Alice Blukacz, Alexandra Obach, Alejandra Carreño Calderón, Claudio Osses Paredes, Edward Mezones-Holguin

Access to healthcare among international migrants in Chile during the pandemic: results from a quantitative poll

The objective of the study was to analyze barriers to access to health care in Chile reported by international migrants residing in the metropolitan region of the country and associated factors. For this purpose, a digital survey on vulnerabilities and resources of migrant communities in Chile to face the SARS-CoV-2 pandemic was applied. A descriptive and stratified analysis was performed by demographic and socioeconomic variables, type of health provision and migratory status. As results, immigrants from Haiti reported the highest percentage of barriers to health care access, after adjusting for socio-demographic variables and migratory status.

 

Keywords: Emigrants and immigrants; health status; human migration; population; socioeconomic factors; COVID-19 pandemic; access to services

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Cabieses Valdés, B. ; Oyarte Galvez, M. ; Álvarez , M. ; Blukacz, A. ; Obach, A. ; Carreño Calderón, A. ; Osses Paredes, C. ; Mezones-Holguin, E. (2023). Acceso a salud de migrantes internacionales en pandemia en Chile: resultados de encuesta cuantitativa. Investigaciones Regionales - Journal of Regional Research, 56, 109-132.