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Ethnic minority and their knowledge about their human health rights: evidence from a national survey in Peru

Angela Uyen-Cateriano (Medecins Sans Frontieres, Luxembourg, Luxembourg)
Fabriccio J. Visconti-Lopez (Sociedad Científica de Estudiantes de Medicina de la Universidad Peruana de Ciencias Aplicadas (SOCIEM UPC), Universidad Peruana de Ciencias Aplicadas, Lima, Peru and Escuela de Medicina, Facultad de Ciencias de la Salud, Universidad Peruana de Ciencias Aplicadas, Lima, Peru)
Cielo Cabanillas-Ramirez (Sociedad Científica de Estudiantes de Medicina de la Universidad Peruana de Ciencias Aplicadas (SOCIEM UPC), Universidad Peruana de Ciencias Aplicadas, Lima, Peru and Escuela de Medicina, Facultad de Ciencias de la Salud, Universidad Peruana de Ciencias Aplicadas, Lima, Peru)
Milene Morocho-Pinedo (Sociedad Científica de Estudiantes de Medicina de la Universidad Peruana de Ciencias Aplicadas (SOCIEM UPC), Universidad Peruana de Ciencias Aplicadas, Lima, Peru and Escuela de Medicina, Facultad de Ciencias de la Salud, Universidad Peruana de Ciencias Aplicadas, Lima, Peru)
Vicente A. Benites-Zapata (Unidad de Investigación para la Generación y Síntesis de Evidencias en Salud, Universidad San Ignacio de Loyola, Lima, Peru, and Red Internacional en Salud Colectiva y Salud Intercultural, Mexico City, Mexico)
Daniel Raa-Ortiz (Facultad de Derecho y Ciencia Política de la Universidad Nacional Mayor de San Marcos, Lima, Peru and Facultad de Derecho de la Universidad Nacional del Rosario, Rosario, Argentina)
Percy Herrera-Añazco (Escuela de Enfermería, Universidad Privada San Juan Bautista, Lima, Peru; Instituto de Evaluación de Tecnologías en Salud e Investigación – IETSI, EsSalud, Lima, Peru and Red Internacional en Salud Colectiva y Salud Intercultural, Mexico City, Mexico)

International Journal of Human Rights in Healthcare

ISSN: 2056-4902

Article publication date: 1 November 2022

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Abstract

Purpose

This study aims to evaluate the association between ethnic minority membership and their knowledge about their human health rights in Peru.

Design/methodology/approach

A secondary analysis of the National Health User Satisfaction Survey 2015–2016 was conducted using an analytical cross-sectional design. Participants who spoke Quechua, Aymara, Awajun, Bora or a language other than Spanish aged 15 year were considered as a racial minority. The question “Do you know that by law you have health rights?” was applied to incorporate knowledge on health rights. Generalized linear models of the Poisson distribution were used to calculate crude prevalence ratio and adjusted prevalence ratio. A total of 3,721 responses were included in the analysis.

Findings

The average age was 38.3 year, and 26.6% were males. The prevalence of belonging to an ethnic minority was 7.7%, and 27.6% of the participants did not know about their health rights. An association was found in the adjusted regression analysis between belonging to an ethnic minority and a greater probability of not knowing human health rights.

Originality/value

The value of the works lies in one in four participants who did not know he had health rights by law. Belonging to an ethnic minority was associated with not knowing about having human health rights.

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Acknowledgements

Funding: Self-funded.

Authors’ contributions: AUC, FVL, CCR, MMP, VABZ, DRO and PHA have participated in the conception of the article, the data collection, its writing and approval of the final version. In addition, FVL, CCR and MMP performed the data analysis.

Citation

Uyen-Cateriano, A., Visconti-Lopez, F.J., Cabanillas-Ramirez, C., Morocho-Pinedo, M., Benites-Zapata, V.A., Raa-Ortiz, D. and Herrera-Añazco, P. (2022), "Ethnic minority and their knowledge about their human health rights: evidence from a national survey in Peru", International Journal of Human Rights in Healthcare, Vol. ahead-of-print No. ahead-of-print. https://doi.org/10.1108/IJHRH-04-2022-0025

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