TY - GEN
T1 - New to a country
T2 - 12th EAI International Conference on Pervasive Computing Technologies for Healthcare, PervasiveHealth 2018
AU - Tang, Charlotte
AU - Gui, Xinning
AU - Chen, Yunan
AU - Magueramane, Mohamed
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 2018 Association for Computing Machinery.
PY - 2018
Y1 - 2018
N2 - Newcomers to a country often face difficulties in adapting to the new healthcare system. Understanding their perceived barriers in utilizing healthcare services in the host country is crucial for designing health IT to meet their health needs. In this paper, we present an interview study of 30 international students attending a U.S. university. We identified barriers that hindered them from accessing health services in the host country – difficulties in understanding health services information, high healthcare costs, unfamiliar and cumbersome health practices, negative beliefs toward western medicine, and communication and language barrier. We also uncovered their alternative solutions by actively seeking health services information, adopting preventive measures, and self-diagnosing and self-treating with medicine brought from their home countries. Finally, we derived implications for designing health IT and services to better support international students’ healthcare.
AB - Newcomers to a country often face difficulties in adapting to the new healthcare system. Understanding their perceived barriers in utilizing healthcare services in the host country is crucial for designing health IT to meet their health needs. In this paper, we present an interview study of 30 international students attending a U.S. university. We identified barriers that hindered them from accessing health services in the host country – difficulties in understanding health services information, high healthcare costs, unfamiliar and cumbersome health practices, negative beliefs toward western medicine, and communication and language barrier. We also uncovered their alternative solutions by actively seeking health services information, adopting preventive measures, and self-diagnosing and self-treating with medicine brought from their home countries. Finally, we derived implications for designing health IT and services to better support international students’ healthcare.
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U2 - 10.1145/3240925.3240969
DO - 10.1145/3240925.3240969
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:85055703966
SN - 9781450364508
T3 - PervasiveHealth: Pervasive Computing Technologies for Healthcare
BT - Proceedings of the 12th EAI International Conference on Pervasive Computing Technologies for Healthcare, 2018
A2 - Minsky, Noga
A2 - Osmani, Venet
PB - Association for Computing Machinery
Y2 - 21 May 2018 through 24 May 2018
ER -