PUBLI : Maxime Eslier, Priscille Sauvegrain, Elie Azria et al. « Association between Migrant Women’s Legal Status and Prenatal Care Utilization in the PreCARE Cohort », International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health, Septembre 2020

  • Liste complète des auteurs : Maxime Eslier, Cathe­rine Deneux-Tharaux, Pris­cille Sauve­grain, Thomas Schmitz, Domi­nique Luton, Laurent Mandel­brot, Candice Estellat, Elie Azria
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Résumé

Barriers to access to prenatal care may partially explain the higher risk of adverse pregnancy outcomes among migrants compared with native-born women in Europe. Our aim was to assess the asso­cia­tion between women’s legal status and inade­quate prenatal care utili­za­tion (PCU) in France, where access to heal­th­care is supposed to be universal. The study popu­la­tion was extracted from the PreCARE pros­pec­tive cohort (N = 10,419). The asso­cia­tions between women’s legal status and a compo­site outcome variable of inade­quate PCU were assessed with multi­va­riate logistic regres­sions. The propor­tion of women born in sub-Saharan Africa (SSA) was higher among the undo­cu­mented than that of other migrants. All groups of migrant women had a higher risk of inade­quate PCU (31.6% for legal migrants with Euro­pean natio­na­li­ties, 40.3% for other legal migrants, and 52.0% for undo­cu­mented migrants) than French-born women (26.4%). The adjusted odds ratio (aOR) for inade­quate PCU for undo­cu­mented migrants compared with that for French-born women was 2.58 (95% confi­dence interval 2.16–3.07) overall, and this asso­cia­tion was similar for migrant women born in SSA (aOR 2.95, 2.28–3.82) and those born elsew­here (aOR 2.37, 1.89–2.97). Regard­less of the maternal place of birth, undo­cu­mented migrant status is asso­ciated with a higher risk of inade­quate PCU.