Health workers' perceptions of access to care for children and pregnant women with precarious immigration status: Health as a right or a privilege?

Social Science and Medicine

Volumn 93, Issue , 2013, Pages 78-85

  Vanthuyne, Karine ^a   Meloni, Francesca ^b   Ruiz Casares, Monica ^b   Rousseau, Cécile ^b   Ricard Guay, Alexandra ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OTTAWA   (Canada)

^b MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Canada; Deservingness; Healthcare access; Healthcare workers; Immigrants with precarious status; Perceptions

Indexed keywords

CHILD HEALTH; HEALTH CARE; HEALTH SERVICES; HEALTH WORKER; IMMIGRANT; IMMIGRATION; PERCEPTION; PREGNANCY; REFUGEE; SOCIOECONOMIC STATUS; WOMENS HEALTH;

ADULT; ARTICLE; CANADA; CHILD; CHILD HEALTH CARE; FEMALE; HEALTH CARE ACCESS; HEALTH PERSONNEL ATTITUDE; HEALTH SURVEY; HUMAN; HUMAN RIGHTS; IMMIGRATION; MALE; MATERNAL CARE; MEDICAL ETHICS; ONLINE SYSTEM; OPEN ENDED QUESTIONNAIRE; PREGNANT WOMAN; PUBLIC HEALTH SERVICE; QUALITATIVE ANALYSIS; SELF EVALUATION; SOCIAL CARE; SOCIAL STATUS; SOCIOECONOMICS; TAX; URBAN AREA;

CANADA; DESERVINGNESS; HEALTHCARE ACCESS; HEALTHCARE WORKERS; IMMIGRANTS WITH PRECARIOUS STATUS; PERCEPTIONS;

ADULT; ATTITUDE OF HEALTH PERSONNEL; CANADA; CHILD; CHILD HEALTH SERVICES; ELIGIBILITY DETERMINATION; EMIGRATION AND IMMIGRATION; FEMALE; HEALTH PERSONNEL; HEALTH SERVICES ACCESSIBILITY; HUMAN RIGHTS; HUMANS; MALE; MATERNAL HEALTH SERVICES; MIDDLE AGED; PREGNANCY; QUALITATIVE RESEARCH; QUESTIONNAIRES; UNIVERSAL COVERAGE;

CANADA; MONTREAL; QUEBEC [CANADA];

EID: 84880999446     PISSN: 02779536     EISSN: 18735347     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.socscimed.2013.06.008     Document Type: Article

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