Migrant Health (eBook, PDF)

A Primary Care Perspective
Redaktion: Kumar, Bernadette N; Diaz, Esperanza

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

In this time of large-scale global migration at levels unrivalled since World War II, primary care practitioners are providing the first line of care to economic immigrants and refugees. In doing so, they face daily the considerable challenges that this heterogenic group brings in terms of communication, culture, and legal status as well as physical and mental health. 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.



Key features:

• Highly practical focus, with clinical cases, learning objectives, concept and 'What this Means in Practice' boxes, and 'Practical Tools for Meeting the Patient' sections



• Covers widely applicable themes in health care including health literacy, communication, the cultures and sub-cultures of systems



• Fully referenced, combining policy, academic literature and practical advice with a broad international scope



• Prestigious author team with chapters written by international contributors with in-depth subject expertise curated by expert editors



• Endorsed and supported by the WONCA Special Interest Group on Migrant Care, International Health and Travel Medicine

The book satisfies the urgent need for a hands-on guide to support and help general practitioners and other members of the primary health care team improve their provision of care not only to immigrants, but to other vulnerable groups and the whole society.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 304
• Erscheinungstermin: 10. Juni 2019
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781351017183
• Artikelnr.: 56962767

Autorenporträt

Bernadette N. Kumar leads the Migration Health work package of the EU Joint Action on Health Inequalities and is the current President of the EUPHA section of Migration and Ethnic Minority Health. She was appointed Director of NAKMI (Norwegian Center for Migration and Minority Health, now part of the Norwegian Institute of Public Health) in 2010 and Associate Professor, Global Health at the Institute for Health and Society, University of Oslo in 2013. She has also been a commissioner of the Lancet Commission on Migration and Health. Esperanza Diaz is a Specialist in Primary Care. She works as Associate Professor in the Department of Global Public Health and Primary Care, University of Bergen, and is a Senior Researcher at the Unit for Migration and Health, Norwegian Institute of Public Health, Norway.

Inhaltsangabe

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.