2018
DOI: 10.4054/demres.2018.38.17
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Uninsured migrants: Health insurance coverage and access to care among Mexican return migrants

Abstract: Background Despite an expansive body of research on health and access to medical care among Mexican immigrants in the United States, research on return migrants focuses primarily on their labor market mobility and contributions to local development. Objective Motivated by recent scholarship that documents poor mental and physical health among Mexican return migrants, this study investigates return migrants' health insurance coverage and access to medical care. Methods I use descriptive and multivariate tec… Show more

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“… 12 Recent analyses of Mexican workers find that both measures yield similar results and that Seguro Social is a strong predictor of stable employment (Villarreal & Blanchard, 2013; Wassink, 2018). …”
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confidence: 92%
“… 12 Recent analyses of Mexican workers find that both measures yield similar results and that Seguro Social is a strong predictor of stable employment (Villarreal & Blanchard, 2013; Wassink, 2018). …”
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confidence: 92%
“…Despite recent improvements in coverage, disparities still exist. Immigrants from Mexico to the US had high uninsured rates and inadequate access to care [ 20 ]. In fact, 62% of surveyed Mexican individuals living within the US in 2013 had no regular source of care and instead relied on private clinics and pharmacies [ 20 ].…”
Section: Introductionmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…Immigrants from Mexico to the US had high uninsured rates and inadequate access to care [ 20 ]. In fact, 62% of surveyed Mexican individuals living within the US in 2013 had no regular source of care and instead relied on private clinics and pharmacies [ 20 ]. Nonelderly adults with HI coverage in Massachusetts often reported additional financial barriers to care and difficulties paying for medical bills compared to the elderly [ 21 ].…”
Section: Introductionmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…A wide range of health insurance schemes can be designed to protect the health of migrants within a given country-specific context. For example, the Government of Mexico introduced a cross-border health insurance system to protect the health of uninsured Mexican migrants living and working in the USA, their families who remain in Mexico, and migrants who later return to Mexico [5,6]. China established social health insurance for rural-to-urban internal migrants, which helped reduce out-of-pocket payments (OPPs) for health services and removed the financial burden of inpatient services for health facilities [7].…”
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confidence: 99%