Dawit Abebe|Lars Lien|Jon Ivar Elstad
Immigrants’ utilization of specialist mental healthcare according to age, country of origin, and migration history: a nation-wide register study in Norway
OsloMet – Oslo Metropolitan University|Innlandet Hospital Trust|OsloMet – Oslo Metropolitan University
immigrant population rises norway becomes ever important consider responsiveness health services specific needs immigrants questioned whether access mental healthcare adequate among groups immigrants study aims examine use specialist mental healthcare services among ethnic norwegians specific immigrants groupsregister data used norwegian patient registry statistics norway sample age 059 consisted 33 million ethnic norwegians 200000 immigrants 11 countries poisson regression models applied examine variations use specialist mental healthcare 20082011 according country origin age group reason immigration length stayimmigrant children adolescents overall significantly lower use specialist mental healthcare ethnic norwegians age distinct exception high utilization rate among children youth iran among adult immigrants utilization rates generally lower among ethnic norwegians particularly poland somalia sri lanka vietnam adult immigrants iraq iran however high utilization rates refugees high utilization rates specialist mental healthcare labour immigrants low useutilization rates specialist mental healthcare lower among immigrants norwegians immigrants poland somalia sri lanka vietnam generally quite low rates immigrants iran high utilization rates findings suggest specialist mental healthcare norway underutilized among considerable parts immigrant population