TY - JOUR
T1 - Korean Immigrant Women's Health Care Utilization in the United States
T2 - A Systematic Review of Literature
AU - Seo, Jin Young
AU - Bae, Sung Heui
AU - Dickerson, Suzanne S.
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 2015 Asia-Pacific Academic Consortium for Public Health.
PY - 2015/3
Y1 - 2015/3
N2 - A systematic literature review was performed to review empirical evidence, published between 1946 and 2015, regarding Korean immigrant women's health care utilization and factors affecting their health care utilization in the United States. Andersen's behavioral model of health services utilization was used as a framework and was expanded to analyze the pattern of health services utilization and to identify characteristics of access to health care. A total of 32 reports were included. Variables were categorized into 1 of 5 individual determinants: cultural, enabling, predisposing, need, and reinforcing factor. A total of 423 relationships were found between individual determinants and health care utilization. All reinforcing variables were effective in increasing Korean immigrant women's health care utilization in a positive way. Interventions targeting multiple factors were strongly effective in encouraging Korean immigrant women to utilize health services for cancer screening. However, these studies yielded inconsistent findings related to outcome measures due to the variability of measurement criteria.
AB - A systematic literature review was performed to review empirical evidence, published between 1946 and 2015, regarding Korean immigrant women's health care utilization and factors affecting their health care utilization in the United States. Andersen's behavioral model of health services utilization was used as a framework and was expanded to analyze the pattern of health services utilization and to identify characteristics of access to health care. A total of 32 reports were included. Variables were categorized into 1 of 5 individual determinants: cultural, enabling, predisposing, need, and reinforcing factor. A total of 423 relationships were found between individual determinants and health care utilization. All reinforcing variables were effective in increasing Korean immigrant women's health care utilization in a positive way. Interventions targeting multiple factors were strongly effective in encouraging Korean immigrant women to utilize health services for cancer screening. However, these studies yielded inconsistent findings related to outcome measures due to the variability of measurement criteria.
KW - Asian people/cultures
KW - health care utilization
KW - immigrants/migrants
KW - women's health
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=84962422622&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1177/1010539515626266
DO - 10.1177/1010539515626266
M3 - Review article
C2 - 26769982
AN - SCOPUS:84962422622
SN - 1010-5395
VL - 28
SP - 107
EP - 133
JO - Asia-Pacific Journal of Public Health
JF - Asia-Pacific Journal of Public Health
IS - 2
ER -