Identifying challenges and enabling factors in utilizing health care services by undocumented immigrant women: a scoping review of qualitative research.

ABSTRACT: Undocumented immigrant women often face significant barriers in accessing healthcare services, which can adversely affect their health outcomes. This scoping review aims to identify the main challenges and enabling factors to undocumented immigrant women's health service utilization and evaluate the methodological quality of existing qualitative studies on this topic. PubMed, Scopus, Web of Science, Embase, and ProQuest were searched until the end of April 2024. The methodological quality of included studies was assessed using the Critical Appraisal Skills Programme (CASP) Qualitative Checklist. The eligible studies must explore perspectives of undocumented immigrant women themselves, healthcare providers or both, as long as findings relate to women's access challenges and enabling factors

SUBMITTER: Etemadi M 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC12369077 | biostudies-literature | 2025 Aug

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature