The role of patient navigators in eliminating health disparities

A Natale‐Pereira, KR Enard, L Nevarez, LA Jones - Cancer, 2011 - Wiley Online Library
Despite many important efforts to increase equity in the US health care system, not all
Americans have equal access to health care—or similar health outcomes. With the goal of …

Influence of the social determinants of health on access to healthcare services among refugees in Australia

J Taylor, GL Haintz - Australian journal of primary health, 2018 - CSIRO Publishing
Refugees in Australia are not fully utilising the healthcare system for several reasons and
this may be affecting their overall health outcomes. This qualitative systematic review …

Health care access for Latino mixed-status families: Barriers, strategies, and implications for reform

H Castañeda, MA Melo - American Behavioral Scientist, 2014 - journals.sagepub.com
There are approximately 2.3 million mixed-status families in the United States, containing
varied combinations of citizens, permanent legal residents, undocumented immigrants, and …

Medical returns: seeking health care in Mexico

S Horton, S Cole - Social science & medicine, 2011 - Elsevier
Despite the growing prevalence of transnational medical travel among immigrant groups in
industrialized nations, relatively little scholarship has explored the diverse reasons …

Moving beyond salmon bias: Mexican return migration and health selection

CJ Diaz, SM Koning, AP Martinez-Donate - Demography, 2016 - Springer
Despite having lower levels of education and limited access to health care services,
Mexican immigrants report better health outcomes than US-born individuals. Research …

Cross‐Border Utilization of Health Care: evidence from a population‐based study in South Texas

D Su, C Richardson, M Wen… - Health services …, 2011 - Wiley Online Library
Objective. To assess the prevalence of health care utilization in Mexico by Texas border
residents and to identify the main contributing factors to their cross‐border utilization of …

Health literacy and breast cancer screening among Mexican American women in South Texas

JA Pagán, CJ Brown, DA Asch, K Armstrong… - Journal of Cancer …, 2012 - Springer
Breast cancer is the main cause of cancer deaths for Hispanic women. This study analyzes
the role of functional health literacy on mammography screening behavior and adherence of …

[HTML][HTML] Cross-border healthcare: A review and applicability to North America during COVID-19

LT Glass, CM Schlachta, JD Hawel, AI Elnahas… - Health Policy Open, 2022 - Elsevier
Cross-border healthcare is an international agreement for the provision of out of country
healthcare for citizens of partnered countries. The European Union (EU) has established …

COVID-19 needs no passport: the interrelationship of the COVID-19 pandemic along the US-Mexico border

JN Filosa, A Botello-Mares, D Goodman-Meza - BMC Public Health, 2022 - Springer
Objectives To investigate the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic along the US-Mexico border
region and evaluate the relationship of COVID-19 related mortality, socioeconomic status …

Cross-border health care utilization among the Hispanic population in the United States: implications for closing the health care access gap

M De Jesus, C Xiao - Ethnicity & health, 2013 - Taylor & Francis
Objectives. To examine predictors of health care service utilization in Mexico or any other
country in Latin America among the US Hispanic population. Methods. This study used data …