Open Access Research article

Latin American immigrants have limited access to health insurance in Japan: a cross sectional study

S Pilar Suguimoto1*, Masako Ono-Kihara1, Mitchell D Feldman2 and Masahiro Kihara1

1 Department of Global Health and Socio-epidemiology, Kyoto University School of Public Health, Yoshida-Konoe-cho, Sakyo-ku, Kyoto 606-8501, Japan

2 Department of Medicine, University of California San Francisco, 1545 Divisadero, Suite 315, San Francisco, CA 94143-0320, USA

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BMC Public Health 2012, 12:238 doi:10.1186/1471-2458-12-238

Published: 25 March 2012

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Table S1. Additional information of documented Latin American immigrants in Nagahama City, Japan by health insurance status.

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