Mobile Health Clinics: Scoping Review with ☸️SAIMSARA.

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doi:10.62487/saimsara6c15f52b

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Mobile Health Clinics: Scoping Review with ☸️SAIMSARA.

Longevity & Public Health

Issue 2, Volume 1, 2026

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DOI: 10.62487/saimsara6c15f52b

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• Last update: 2026-05-26 11:38:53

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Mobile health clinics are not just outreach vans; they emerge as equity infrastructure that can bring screening, diagnosis, treatment initiation, and trust directly to populations fixed-site care often misses. The full evidence map shows where MHCs truly deliver value, where continuity breaks down after the first encounter, and which models are most likely to convert access into sustained care..

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Abstract: To map and synthesize the available structured evidence on mobile health clinics, identifying the most recurrent findings, service models, populations served, implementation considerations, and research gaps relevant to the use of MHCs as health care delivery platforms. The review uses 174 references and builds its evidence map from 410 original studies with 14.965.217 total participants/sample observations (topic-deduplicated ΣN). The evidence consistently indicates that mobile health clinics function primarily as equity-oriented access platforms, reaching populations that fixed-site care often misses and delivering measurable gains in screening, diagnosis, and treatment initiation across infectious disease, chronic disease, and maternal-child domains. Recurrent signals such as 44% of Iowa clients using an MHC as their only source of care, a 36:1 reported ROI for The Family Van, and shortened TB time-to-treatment from 41 to 8 days using community-based Xpert support a role for MHCs as high-value, low-barrier entry points. However, continuity after the initial encounter—linkage, referral completion, and longitudinal retention—emerged as the dominant vulnerability across settings. Future research should prioritize pragmatic comparative studies that pair MHC delivery with structured navigation and standardized continuity metrics to determine which integrated models most reliably convert access into sustained outcomes.

Keywords: Mobile health clinics; Underserved populations; Access to care; Health equity; Rural health; Homeless persons; Primary health care; Vaccination services; Community outreach; Vulnerable populations

Review Stats

Final search date and database lock: 2026-05-18 21:07:00 CEST
Plan: Pro (expanded craft tokens; source: PubMed)
Source: PubMed
Total Abstracts/Papers: 2324
Downloaded Abstracts/Papers: 2324
Included original and non-original Abstracts/Papers (all): 460
Included original Abstracts/Papers (Vote counting by direction of effect): 410
Reference Index (links used in paper): 174
Total participants/sample observations (topic deduplicated ΣN): 14.965.217

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Reference Index (174)

[1] Mobile dental clinic for oral health services to underserved rural Indian communities. — https://doi.org/10.6026/973206300191383
[2] The Effectiveness of a Mobile Health Clinic Delivering Mandatory and Elective Middle School Immunizations: A Descriptive Analysis. — https://doi.org/10.7759/cureus.45452
[3] Diphtheria in Europe. — https://doi.org/10.5588/pha.23.0011
[4] A review of a GP registrar-run mobile health clinic for homeless people. — https://doi.org/10.1007/s11845-016-1527-2
[5] A mobile clinic approach to the delivery of community-based mental health services in rural Haiti. — https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0199313
[6] A community-led mobile health clinic to improve structural and social determinants of health among (im)migrant workers. — https://doi.org/10.1186/s12939-022-01630-7
[7] An Aboriginal Community-Controlled Health Organization model of service delivery: qualitative process evaluation of the Tulku wan Wininn mobile clinic. — https://doi.org/10.1186/s12939-022-01768-4
[8] Health Care Utilization among Homeless-Experienced Adults Who Were Seen by a Mobile Addiction Health Clinic in Boston, Massachusetts: A Quasi-Experimental Study. — https://doi.org/10.1080/10826084.2023.2212279

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