Qualitative evaluation of a mandatory health insurance 'wait period' in a publicly funded health system: understanding health inequities for newcomer im/migrant women.

ABSTRACT:

Objectives

To evaluate impacts of a residency-based waiting period for health insurance coverage on lived experiences of health and settlement for im/migrant women in British Columbia, Canada.

Design

The IRIS study is a mixed-methods, community-based, qualitative evaluation of recently arrived im/migrant women's access to sexual and reproductive care. In-depth, semistructured interviews were conducted by trained multilingual and multicultural interviewers with lived migration experience in the participant's preferred language.

Setting

Metro Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada from July 2018 to January 2020.

Participants

Data collected from community focus groups (four groups, n=29) of both service providers and im/migrant women was used. Following this, qualita

SUBMITTER: Hamel-Smith Grassby M 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8344307 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Aug

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature