Christian Wiessner, Sara Licaj, Jens Klein, Barbara Bohn, Tilman Brand, Stefanie Castell, Amand Führer, Volker Harth, Margit Heier, Jana-Kristin Heise, Bernd Holleczek, Stefanie Jaskulski, Carmen Jochem, Lena Koch-Gallenkamp, Lilian Krist, Michael Leitzmann, Wolfgang Lieb, Claudia Meinke-Franze, Rafael Mikolajczyk, Ilais Moreno Velásquez, Nadia Obi, Tobias Pischon, Sabine Schipf, Sigrid Thierry, Stefan N Willich, Hajo Zeeb, Heiko Becher
Objective: To compare health service use (HSU) between migrants and non-migrants in Germany. Methods: Using data from the population-based German National Cohort (NAKO), we compared the HSU of general practitioners, medical specialists, and psychologists/psychiatrists between six migrant groups of different origins with the utilization of non-migrants. A latent profile analysis (LPA) with a subsequent multinomial regression analysis was conducted to characterize the HSU of different groups. Additionally, separate regression models were calculated...
2024: International Journal of Public Health