Ontario Healthcare Coverage Eligibility Among New Permanent Residents: A Scoping Review. Issue 4 (2nd October 2017)

• Record Type: Journal Article
• Authors: Bobadilla, Andrea; Orchard, Treena; Magalhães, Lilian; Fitzsimmons, Deborah
• Is Part Of: Journal of immigrant & refugee studies. Volume 15:Issue 4(2017)
• Page Start: 384
• Page End: 405
• Publication Date: 2017-10-02
• Subjects: Migration -- health -- scoping review -- provincial/public health care -- Canada -- Ontario; Immigrants -- United States -- Social conditions -- Periodicals; Refugees -- United States -- Social conditions -- Periodicals; Social work with immigrants -- United States -- Periodicals; 362.8753097305
• DOI: 10.1080/15562948.2016.1214993
• Languages: English
• ISSNs: 1556-2948

Abstract

ABSTRACT: New permanent residents to Ontario can experience difficulties accessing health services due to the 3-month residency requirement for provincial healthcare coverage. This scoping literature review, which included peer-reviewed articles and gray literature from 1993–2013, examined the effects of the 3-month waiting period on the health of new permanent residents to Ontario, public health, and the health-care system. At the individual level, issues of affordability, pre-existing conditions, and quality of care were prominent throughout the literature. At a systems level, the policy was found to constrain various health-care settings, pose a risk to public health, and compound health-care system costs.