Palliative care utilisation in migrant populations: protocol for a scoping review.

ABSTRACT:

Introduction

Migrants are vulnerable to structural barriers that compromise their health status and simultaneously decrease their access to healthcare, including palliative care. Literature on palliative care access in migrant populations is limited by a focus on migration to high-income countries; under-representation of refugees, asylum seekers and migrant workers; and no investigation of intersectional factors. We seek to conduct a scoping review of palliative care utilisation in migrant populations, including both academic and grey literature, including articles from low- to middle-income countries and about refugees, asylum seekers and migrant workers. The review will map out what is already known and what remains unknown about palliative care utilisation in migrants; identify

SUBMITTER: Gao A 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC12820814 | biostudies-literature | 2026 Jan

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature