TY - JOUR AU - Nielsen, Signe Smith AU - Krasnik, Allan AU - Rosano, Aldo PY - 2009 DA - 2009/11/18 TI - Registry data for cross-country comparisons of migrants' healthcare utilization in the EU: a survey study of availability and content JO - BMC Health Services Research SP - 210 VL - 9 IS - 1 AB - 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. SN - 1472-6963 UR - https://doi.org/10.1186/1472-6963-9-210 DO - 10.1186/1472-6963-9-210 ID - Nielsen2009 ER -