Journal of Immigrant and Refugee Studies
Volume 15, Issue 4, 2017, Pages 384-405

Ontario Healthcare Coverage Eligibility Among New Permanent Residents: A Scoping Review (Article)

Bobadilla A.* , Orchard T. , Magalhães L. , Fitzsimmons D.
  • a Faculty of Health Sciences, Western University, London, ON, Canada
  • b Faculty of Health Sciences, Western University, London, ON, Canada
  • c Faculty of Health Sciences, Western University, London, ON, Canada
  • d Faculty of Health Sciences, Western University, London, ON, Canada

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. © 2017 Taylor & Francis Group, LLC.

Author Keywords

Scoping review Migration Health Ontario provincial/public health care Canada

Index Keywords

Canada literature review Ontario [Canada] migrants experience health services health insurance public health immigrant population
Link
https://www.scopus.com/inward/record.uri?eid=2-s2.0-84984697645&doi=10.1080%2f15562948.2016.1214993&partnerID=40&md5=f71c7124f09d4b8ffb8a6b183641b971
DOI: 10.1080/15562948.2016.1214993
ISSN: 15562948
Original Language: English