Data Brief: Gaps in Health Services for Immigrants

A new report by UC Berkeley students Brisa Rodriguez and Stephanie Peng (Gaps in Health Services for Immigrants) maps healthcare facilities as well as the demand for healthcare across Arizona to identify the most pressing gaps in health services.  It is published in a  Berkeley Interdisciplinary Migration Initiative data brief. Their report finds that although federally-qualified health clinics are the only source of medical care for about 1 in 5 foreign-born residents in Arizona’s metro areas, these immigrant-serving health clinics appear to remain concentrated in Tucson, a city with a legacy of political activism, relative to other mid-size cities and suburbs that are also home to thousands of immigrants.

Among the key findings:

• Cities with the most demand: Phoenix, Tucson, Mesa
• Cities with the highest access to health services: Scottsdale, Tucson
• Cities with the lowest access to health services: Mesa, Tempe, Chandler, Avondale, Glendale. 

The brief is part of a larger BIMI project on Mapping Social Inequality.

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