Comparing the health of refugee and asylee patients with that of non-refugee immigrant and US-born patients in a large Urban clinic.

ABSTRACT:

Objectives

To compare disease burden in refugee/asylee, non-refugee immigrant, and US-born patients in the largest safety net clinic in San Francisco, California.

Methods

This is a retrospective chart review including 343 refugee/asylee, 450 immigrant, and 202 US-born patients in a San Francisco clinic from January 2014 to December 2017. Using electronic medical records, we compared prevalence of several diseases by immigration status. Using Poisson regression models with robust variance, we assessed association of diseases with immigration status, adjusting for sociodemographic characteristics.

Results

Diagnoses of non-communicable chronic diseases were less common in refugees/asylees, who had a greater risk of being diagnosed with mental health conditions. In Poisso

SUBMITTER: Raphael E 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10373359 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Jul

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature