Access to healthcare in superdiverse neighbourhoods

Simon Pemberton; Jenny Phillimore; Hannah Bradby; Beatriz Padilla; Jessica Lopes; Silja Samerski; Rachel Humphris

doi:10.1016/j.healthplace.2018.12.003

Access to healthcare in superdiverse neighbourhoods

Health Place. 2019 Jan:55:128-135. doi: 10.1016/j.healthplace.2018.12.003. Epub 2018 Dec 14.

Authors

Simon Pemberton¹, Jenny Phillimore², Hannah Bradby³, Beatriz Padilla⁴, Jessica Lopes⁴, Silja Samerski⁵, Rachel Humphris²

Affiliations

¹ School of Geography, Geology and the Environment, Keele University, Keele ST5 5BG, UK. Electronic address: [email protected].
² University of Birmingham, UK.
³ Uppsala University, Sweden.
⁴ Instituto Universitário de Lisboa, Portugal.
⁵ Universität Bremen, Germany.

PMID: 30559049
DOI: 10.1016/j.healthplace.2018.12.003

Abstract

To date little attention has been focused on how the differing features of 'superdiverse' neighbourhoods shape residents' access to healthcare services. Through utilising a cross-national mixed-methods approach, the paper highlights how defining features of superdiverse neighbourhoods - 'newness', 'novelty' and 'diversity' - influence a number of neighbourhood 'domains' and 'rules of access' that regulate access to healthcare. Issues of uncertainty, affordability, compliance, transnationalism and the diversity of community and local sociability are identified as being particularly significant, but which may vary in importance according to the nationality, ethnicity and / or religion of particular individuals.

Publication types

Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't

MeSH terms

Adult
Anthropology, Cultural
Cultural Diversity*
Ethnicity*
Female
Health Services Accessibility*
Humans
Interviews as Topic
Male
Middle Aged
Residence Characteristics*
Transients and Migrants / psychology*