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Explaining Immigrant Health Service Utilization

A Theoretical Framework

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ID3405887
AuthorsPhilip Q Yang (0000-0002-9082-3128), Shann Hwa Hwang (0009-0004-8712-0255, Texas Woman's University)
Year2016
Volume6
Issue2
Publication date2016-04-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueSAGE Open (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 2158-2440 • E-ISSN: 2158-2440
PublisherSAGE Publications Inc (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1177/2158244016648137
OpenAlexW2397731231
LanguageEN
Citations received44
References cited119

Although there is no paucity of theoretical frameworks for explaining people's health service utilization (HSU), theoretical frameworks designed to account for variations in immigrants' HSU remain underdeveloped. Building on influential theories or models for explaining HSU and especially Andersen's widely used health behavior model, this article proposes a theoretical framework for explaining disparities in immigrant HSU. The proposed framework explains disparities in immigrant HSU by the health care need, resources, and predisposing factors of immigrants, and macrostructural/contextual conditions at both the general and immigrant-specific levels, as well as the mediating relationships among some of these factors. It is believed that this new framework can offer a fuller understanding of the determination process of immigrant HSU

Economic growth · Economics · Health care · Health equity · Immigration · Political science · Sociology · Global Health Workforce Issues · Global Maternal and Child Health · Migration, Health and Trauma · Psychology · Social Psychology

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