(1) Department of Public Health, Section for Health Services Research, University of Copenhagen, ?ster Farimagsgade 5, 1014 Copenhagen K, Denmark;(2) Latium Region, Agency of Public Health, Via di Santa Costanza 53, 00198 Rome, Italy
Abstract:
Background
Cross-national comparable data on migrants' use of healthcare services are important to address problems in access to healthcare;
to identify high risk groups for prevention efforts; and to evaluate healthcare systems comparatively. Some of the main obstacles
limiting analyses of health care utilization are lack of sufficient coverage and availability of reliable and valid healthcare
data which includes information allowing for identification of migrants. The objective of this paper was to reveal which registry
data on healthcare utilization were available in the EU countries in which migrants can be identified; and to determine to
what extent data were comparable between the EU countries.