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 migrants 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. 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.
Les mer
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.
Les mer
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.
Les mer
This is an outstanding monograph on the medical and psychological considerations clinicians must keep in mind when caring for a person who has immigrated to a land with different customs and lifestyles. The book offers insights thatclinicians usually are not exposed to in their training programs. The book also is a tremendous asset for clinicians who participate in medical missions to developing areas, sensitizing them to the cultures they may not have experiencewith.Vincent F Carr, DO, MSA, FACC, FACP(Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences)
Les mer

Produktdetaljer

ISBN
9781138498051
Publisert
2019-07-26
Utgiver
Vendor
CRC Press
Vekt
762 gr
Høyde
246 mm
Bredde
174 mm
Aldersnivå
P, U, 06, 05
Språk
Product language
Engelsk
Format
Product format
Innbundet
Antall sider
336

Biographical note

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.