Access to appropriate health care for non-English speaking migrant families with a newborn/young child: a systematic scoping literature review

Table 3 Characteristics of the included studies

Study characteristic		No of studies
Study focus^a	Description of barriers to health care access	8
	Description of enablers to health care access	8
	Evaluation of an intervention	2
Health care service focus	Maternity and postnatal or just postnatal	6
Health care service focus	Oral health of babies/young children	3
Setting	Australia	6
	Canada	2
	England	1
Design	Qualitative	7
Design	Quasi-experimental	2
Target population	Migrants	3
	Refugees	3
	Mixed	3
Target ethnicity^a	Afghani	3
	Chinese	2
	Iraqi	2
	Lebanese	2
	Pakistani	2
	Vietnamese	1
	African	1
	Middle Eastern^b	1
	Not specified or eligibility not restricted to particular language groups	2
Number of participants	< 20	1
	21–60	4
	61–100	2
	100+	2
Type of participant^a	Migrant/refugee women	7
	Migrant/refugee men	3
	Health professionals	2
	Voluntary workers	1

^anot mutually exclusive categories
^bIncludes Lebanese participants but they are not the sole focus of the study with Middle Eastern participants, so this study has not been counted separately in the Lebanese category

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