
medRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory), Год журнала: 2025, Номер unknown
Опубликована: Янв. 10, 2025
All over the world, migrants experience inequalities in access to health care. While this issue has been amply explored among immigrants and refugees high-income countries, there is a dart of information on situation in-transit asylum seekers (IMAS) low- or middle-income countries. Since these are main recipient countries for population, it important document care context, especially such as Mexico, which IMAS entitled par with general population. assess experienced by compared population employing cascade approach. We analyzed data from cross-sectional survey shelters Tijuana (November 2020-April 2021, n=481), ENSANUT-COVID 2020, representative Mexico conducted at about same time (unweighted n=25,959). - self-reported presence needs, whether participants sought given need, they received two samples. A higher percentage had need past three months, (43.0% vs 21.9%). were less likely seek (58.9% 81.8%), receive when (86.9% 97.7%), public system (19.7% 43.3%). Inequalities apparent, even that normatively should provide regardless migration status. Understanding why occurs important, our results represent baseline evaluate future improvements universal coverage Mexico.
Язык: Английский