Migrant and Australian born patients attending a suburban casualty service.
761 patients were interviewed at a suburban hospital casualty department, to examine usage of the department and to define differences between migrants and non-migrants. Whilst differences in socio-economic grouping, duration of illness before presentation and command of English were noted, surprising similarities in private insurance rate and general practitioner usage were found.
D000059:Accidents; D000293:Adolescent; D000328:Adult; D000368:Aged; D001290:Attitude; D001315:Australia; D002648:Child; D002675:Child, Preschool; D004632:Emergency Medical Services / Q000706:statistics & numerical data*; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D007223:Infant; D007231:Infant, Newborn; D007802:Language; D007861:Lebanon / Q000208:ethnology; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D010821:Physicians, Family; D012959:Socioeconomic Factors; D013383:Suburban Population; D013997:Time Factors; D014171:Transients and Migrants; D014421:Turkey / Q000208:ethnology