| Literature DB >> 25576178 |
Carlotta Franchi1, Marta Baviera2, Marco Sequi3, Laura Cortesi2, Mauro Tettamanti4, Maria Carla Roncaglioni2, Luca Pasina5, Codjo Djade Dignefa5, Ida Fortino6, Angela Bortolotti6, Luca Merlino6, Pier Mannuccio Mannucci7, Alessandro Nobili5.
Abstract
To compare the utilization of health care resources (drug prescriptions, hospital admissions and health care services) by immigrant versus native elderly people (65 years or more), by using administrative database of the Lombardy Region. For each immigrant (an older people born out of Italy), one person born in Lombardy (native) was randomly selected and matched by age, sex and general practitioner. The 25,508 immigrants selected were less prescribed with at least one drug (OR 0.72, 95 % CI 0.67-0.76) and had a lesser use of health care services (OR 0.79, 95 % CI 0.75-0.84) than natives. No statistically significant differences were found for hospital admission rates (OR 0.99, 95 % CI 0.99-1.04). A lower rate of health care resource utilization was observed in elderly immigrants who had been living in the host region for as many as 10 years.Entities:
Keywords: Administrative database; Elderly; Health care resource; Migrants
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Year: 2016 PMID： 25576178 DOI： 10.1007/s10903-014-0152-2
Source DB: PubMed Journal: J Immigr Minor Health ISSN： 1557-1912