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Maternal Health Care for Undocumented Migrant Women in Norway

The project seek to gain knowledge about the use of health services among pregnant women without a residence permit in Norway, what maternity care they receive and the pregnancy complications and pregnancy outcomes they experience.

We do this by first looking at women`s use of the two health centres for undocumented migrants in Bergen and Oslo during pregnancy and their follow-up at three local hospitals.

Secondly we look at the use of primary care emergency services in Bergen and Oslo.

Thirdly we use register data from the Medical Birth Register to compare women without social security numbers with Norwegian-born and foreign-born with social security numbers.

The project will create a knowledge base for the future primary health care service in Norway and Norway's commitment to follow-up of the UN's sustainability goals regarding universal health care.

Publications

Eick, F., Vallersnes, O.M., Fjeld, H.E. et al. Use of non-governmental maternity services and pregnancy outcomes among undocumented women: a cohort study from Norway. BMC Pregnancy Childbirth 22, 789 (2022). https://doi.org/10.1186/s12884-022-05112-0

Frode Eick, Odd Martin Vallersnes, Heidi E. Fjeld, Ingvil Krarup Sørbye, Sven Eirik Ruud & Cecilie Dahl (2023) Use of emergency primary care among pregnant undocumented migrants over ten years: an observational study from Oslo, Norway, Scandinavian Journal of Primary Health Care, 41:3, 317-325, DOI: 10.1080/02813432.2023.2237074