Studies from French National Institute of Health and Medical Research (INSERM) Add New Findings in the Area of Health Insurance (Access to health…

Studies from French National Institute of Health and Medical Research (INSERM) Add New Findings in the Area of Health Insurance (Access to health insurance coverage among sub-Saharan African migrants living in France: Results of the ...)

By a News Reporter-Staff News Editor at Insurance Weekly News -- Fresh data on Health Insurance are presented in a new report. According to news reporting originating in Paris, France, by VerticalNews journalists, research stated, "Migrants' access to care depends on their health insurance coverage in the host country. We aimed to evaluate in France the dynamic and the determinants of health insurance coverage acquisition among sub-Saharan migrants."

Financial supporters for this research include Agence Nationale de Recherches sur le Sida et les Hepatites Virales, Sante Publique France.

The news reporters obtained a quote from the research from the French National Institute of Health and Medical Research (INSERM), "In the PARCOURS life-event retrospective survey conducted in 2012-2013 in health-care facilities in the Paris region, data on health insurance coverage (HIC) each year since arrival in France has been collected among three groups of sub-Saharan migrants recruited in primary care centres (N=763), centres for HIV care (N=923) and for chronic hepatitis B care (N=778). Year to year, the determinants of the acquisition and lapse of HIC were analysed with mixed-effects logistic regression models. In the year of arrival, 63.4% of women and 55.3% of men obtained HIC. But three years after arrival, still 14% of women and 19% of men had not obtained HIC. HIC acquisition was accelerated in case of HIV or hepatitis B infection, for migrants arrived after 2000, and for women in case of pregnancy and when they were studying. Conversely, it was slowed down in case of lack of a residency permit and lack of financial resources for men. In addition, women and men without residency permits were more likely to have lost HIC when they had one. In France, the health insurance system aiming at protecting all, including undocumented migrants, leads to a prompt access to HIC for migrants from sub-Saharan Africa."

According to the news reporters, the research concluded: "Nevertheless, this access may be impaired by administrative and social insecurities."

For more information on this research see: Access to health insurance coverage among sub-Saharan African migrants living in France: Results of the ANRS-PARCOURS study. Plos One, 2018;13(2):e0192916. (Public Library of Science - www.plos.org; Plos One - www.plosone.org)

Our news correspondents report that additional information may be obtained by contacting N. Vignier, INSERM, Sorbonne Universite, Institut Pierre Louis d'Epidemiologie et de Sante Publique (IPLESP), Dept. of Social Epidemiology, Paris, France. Additional authors for this research include A. Desgrees du Lou, J. Pannetier, A. Ravalihasy, A. Gosselin, F. Lert, N. Lydie, O. Bouchaud and R. Dray Spira.

The direct object identifier (DOI) for that additional information is: https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0192916. This DOI is a link to an online electronic document that is either free or for purchase, and can be your direct source for a journal article and its citation.

Keywords for this news article include: Paris, France, Europe, Health Insurance, Health and Medicine.

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