From: Immigrants’ use of emergency primary health care in Norway: a registry-based observational study
Norway | Poland | Germany | Somalia | Iraq | |
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Number of patients | 684 978 | 3 658 | 1 770 | 4 793 | 5 382 |
Mean age (years) | 40.2 (40.1 – 40.2) | 29.5 (29.0 – 30.0) | 35.4 (34.4 – 36.4) | 21.1 (20.6 – 21.5) | 24.9 (24.4 – 25.3) |
Percentage women | 53.4 (53.3 – 53.5) | 39.5 (37.9 – 41.1) | 53.2 (50.9 – 55.5) | 51.7 (50.3 – 53.1) | 47.0 (45.7 – 48.3) |
Immigrants’ length of stay in Norway (years) | - | 4.9 (4.6 – 5.2) | 10.7 (10.0 – 11.4) | 6.2 (6.1 – 6.3) | 6.8 (6.7 – 6.9) |
Percentage with Norwegian citizenship | 100.0 (100.0 – 100.0) | 15.4 (14.3 – 16.6) | 17.4 (15.7 – 19.2) | 53.1 (51.7 – 54.5) | 53.1 (51.8 – 54.4) |
Percentage rural (centrality 0) | 13.4 (13.3 – 13.5) | 5.2 (4.5 – 5.9) | 9.9 (8.5 – 11.3) | 3.7 (3.2 – 4.2) | 2.8 (2.4 – 3.2) |
Percentage enlisted with a RGP | 97.8 (97.8 – 97.8) | 92.3 (91.4 – 93.1) | 93.3 (92.1 – 94.4) | 97.9 (97.4 – 98.3) | 98.7 (98.3 – 99.0) |
Reason for immigration (percentage of all immigrants with ≤ 18 years length of stay): | |||||
N | 3 306 | 1 426 | 4 638 | 5 261 | |
Protection | - | 0.5 (0.3 – 0.7) | 1.1 (0.6 – 1.6) | 40.6 (39.2 – 42.0) | 43.7 (42.4 – 45.0) |
Work | - | 58.7 (57.0 – 60.4) | 47.9 (45.3 – 50.5) | 0.0 (0.0 – 0.0) | 0.2 (0.1 – 0.3) |
Family reunion | - | 29.9 (28.3 – 31.5) | 32.9 (30.5 – 35.3) | 25.9 (24.6 – 27.2) | 30.6 (29.4 – 31.9) |
Other, unknown | - | 10.9 (9.8 – 12.0) | 18.1 (16.1 – 20.1) | 33.5 (32.1 – 34.9) | 25.5 (24.3 – 26.7) |