Migrant Health: A Primary Care Perspective

ISBN-13: 9781138498051 / Angielski / Twarda / 2019 / 336 str.

Bernadette N. Kumar; Esperanza Diaz

Opis

This accessible book has been carefully crafted to enable primary health care professionals to develop the skills and competencies required to deliver appropriate services to this diverse group of patients and, in turn, to ensure equity in health care for all.

Spis treści

Section I: Overarching Themes. 1. Migration and migrants: What we know about worldwide mobility and why it matters. 2. Migration health theories: Healthy migrant effect and allostatic load. Can both be true? 3. Culture, language and the clinic - Three stories, two keys. 4. The ethics of migrant health: Power and privilege versus rights and entitlements. 5. Discrimination and health. 6. Migrants’ use of primary health care services: Overuse, underuse, or both? Section II: A Life-Course Perspective. 7. A life-course perspective on migrant health. 8. Promoting the health of migrant children and children of migrants. 9. Adolescent migrant health. 10. Health care for older and elderly migrants. 11. Family and group as a unit of care. Section III: Health Challenges at the Clinic. 12. Health challenges at the clinic. 13. Gynaecology and obstetrics. 14. Chronic disease prevention and management: An understated priority. 15. Understanding unexplained and complex symptoms and diseases. 16. Cancer among migrant patients. 17. Migration and mental health. 18. Multimorbidity: The complexity. Section IV: Opportunities and Tools. 19. Opportunities and tools when meeting migrant patients. 20. Bridging cultural and language discordance. 21. Evidence-based guidelines and advocacy. 22. Diversity-sensitive versus adapted services for migrants: The example of dementia care in Germany. 23. Assessment tools for dementia and depression in older migrants. 24. Community participation in primary health care: Meaningful involvement of migrants.