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Healthcare-Experience Survey Assessment in the Rhode Island Cambodian Community
- Source :
- Journal of Immigrant and Minority Health. 23:409-413
- Publication Year :
- 2020
- Publisher :
- Springer Science and Business Media LLC, 2020.
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Abstract
- The Cambodian community is the largest Southeast Asian cultural identity in Rhode Island (RI) with high poverty rates and limited healthcare access. Investigators conducted a cross-sectional observational survey study from 2016 to 2017 on eligible Cambodians to better understand their healthcare experiences. Questions were reviewed by the RI Cambodian Society for cultural sensitivity. 123 surveys were collected; 98 respondents had medical providers. Respondents with providers reported difficulty understanding of their providers (59%) and limited access to medical interpreters (50%). The non-provider group were less likely to have medical insurance (54.2% vs. 88.8%, p = .0001) and more likely to visit the emergency department (47.1% vs. 15.3%; p
- Subjects :
- medicine.medical_specialty
030505 public health
Inequality
Epidemiology
Cultural identity
business.industry
Public health
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education
Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health
Language barrier
Emergency department
Southeast asian
03 medical and health sciences
0302 clinical medicine
Family medicine
Health care
medicine
Observational study
030212 general & internal medicine
0305 other medical science
business
media_common
Subjects
Details
- ISSN :
- 15571920 and 15571912
- Volume :
- 23
- Database :
- OpenAIRE
- Journal :
- Journal of Immigrant and Minority Health
- Accession number :
- edsair.doi...........74b3ad8a8625cdb5c5712ef3bf0dc83f