Marcela Oyarte

Dados Biográficos

ID2807079
NOMEMarcela Oyarte
PRENOMESMarcela
SOBRENOMEOyarte
ASSINATURAOYARTE M
AFILIAÇÕESInstituto de Salud Pública de Chile
ORCID0000-0003-3757-4262
VERIFICADOSim
TOTAL DE OBRAS9
TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES0
TOTAL COMO AUTOR9
TOTAL COMO EDITOR0
PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO2018
ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO2025
ÍNDICE H0

  • Mental health and the healthy immigrant effect in Chile

    Open AccessAlice Blukacz, Marcela Oyarte et al.ARTICLEFrontiers in Public Health2025

    Introduction: The question of whether international migrants appear to be in better health than the locals, and whether this "healthy immigrant effect" declines over time is a highly relevant one, especially with regards to mental health. Based on a community-based survey conducted in Santiago, Chile, this study compares the mental health outcomes of international migrants versus local populations and examines differences within the international…

  • Addressing health inequalities and barriers to access among adolescent migrants in Chile

    Open AccessAlejandra Carreño-Calderón, Alexandra Obach et al.ARTICLEInternational Journal for Equity…2025

    Adolescent migrants in Chile face important social inequalities in health compared to locals and additional barriers to exercise their right to health, putting their current and future health at risk. Priority actions are needed for this specific group, and must focus on increasing the acceptability and coverage of preventive care, as well as strengthening their participation in the social and health decisions affecting them

  • Education as a social determinant of the health of international migrants and locals in Chile between 2013 and 2022

    Open AccessAlice Blukacz, Marcela Oyarte et al.ARTICLEJournal of Migration and Health2025Referências: 2

    This study provides an overview of education as a social determinant of health among international migrants and locals for the last decade and call for targeted in-depth analyses on the topic

  • Adequate housing as a social determinant of the health of international migrants and locals in Chile between 2013 and 2022

    Open AccessAlice Blukacz, Marcela Oyarte et al.ARTICLEBMC Public Health2024

    We found significant inequities in adequate housing between migrant populations and locals in Chile, and some inequities among both populations based on structural socioeconomic deprivation. Experiencing hazardous situations emerged as a social determinant of health among international migrants in 2022, potentially suggesting growing challenges related to social exclusion in urban areas. However, limitations such as exclusion criteria of the surv…

  • Percepción de discriminación en inmigrantes comparados a nacidos en Chile y su relación con acceso a servicios y resultados de salud

    Open AccessMarcela Oyarte, Báltica Cabieses et al.ARTICLERevista de Saúde Pública2022

    OBJETIVOS: Comparar la autopercepción de discriminación entre inmigrantes y locales en Chile y analizar la relación entre inmigración y discriminación percibida e inmigración, discriminación y resultados de salud, ajustando por características sociodemográficas y capital social. MÉTODOS: Estudio transversal, utilizando encuesta poblacional (CASEN2017). Se seleccionaron 2.409 inmigrantes (representativos de N = 291.270) y 67.857 locales (represent…

  • Unequal Access and Use of Health Care Services among Settled Immigrants, Recent Immigrants, and Locals

    Open AccessMarcela Oyarte, Báltica Cabieses et al.ARTICLEInternational Journal of…2022

    Globally, and particularly in the Latin American region, international migration continues to grow. Access and use of health care services by migrants vary according to their country of origin and residence time. We aimed to compare the access and use of health care services between international migrants (including settled migrants from Peru, Argentina, Bolivia, Ecuador; Emerging migrants from Venezuela, Dominican Republic, Colombia, Haiti; and …

  • A comparative analysis of health status of international migrants and local population in Chile

    Open AccessIsabel Rada, Marcela Oyarte et al.ARTICLEBMC Public Health2022

    Testing the HME in Chile revealed an advantage for chronic morbidities that remained significant after adjustment for SDH. This analysis shed light on health disparities between international migrants and local population in the Latin American region, with special relevance of unemployment, type of health system and psychosocial SDH. It also informed about differential exposures faced during migration process that could dissolve the HME over time…

  • Health access to immigrants

    Open AccessBáltica Cabieses, Marcela OyarteARTICLERevista de Saúde Pública2020

    OBJETIVO: Comparar el acceso y uso efectivo de servicios de salud disponibles entre migrantes internacionales y chilenos. MÉTODOS: Análisis secundario de la encuesta poblacional de Caracterización Socioeconómica Nacional (CASEN), versión 2017. Se describieron indicadores de acceso al sistema de salud (tener previsión de salud) y uso efectivo de servicios de salud (necesidad sentida, consulta o cobertura, barreras y satisfacción de la necesidad) e…

  • Hospitalizations for cancer in international migrants versus local population in Chile

    Open AccessMarcela Oyarte, Iris Delgado et al.ARTICLERevista de Saúde Pública2018

    OBJECTIVE: To compare cancer hospital morbidity among the local population and the immigrant population in Chile. METHODS: This is a prevalence study based on the analysis of hospital discharges of all the health centers of Chile. Cancer hospital discharges were characterized in 2012 according to the migratory status. The crude and specific rates of hospital morbidity for this cause were estimated for the analysis of their association with migrat…