Migrant Health

A Primary Care Perspective

Bernadette N. Kumar, Esperanza Diaz

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English

CRC Press
26 July 2019

Refugees & political asylum; Public health & preventive medicine; Health systems & services

Series: WONCA Family Medicine

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.

Edited by: Bernadette N. Kumar, Esperanza Diaz
Imprint: CRC Press
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 244mm, Width: 172mm,
Weight: 762g
ISBN: 9781138498051
ISBN 10: 113849805X
Series: WONCA Family Medicine
Pages: 304
Publication Date: 26 July 2019
Audience: Professional and scholarly , College/higher education , Undergraduate , Primary
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active

Preface Foreword Background information - Kumar and Diaz Part 1: Overarching Themes Migration and immigrants - BN Kumar & E Diaz Migration health theories: healthy migrant effect and allostatic load. Can both be true? - BN Kumar & E Diaz Culture, language and the clinic - three stories, two keys- I Heath & E Schei The Ethics of Migrant Health: Power and Privilege versus Rights and Entitlements. G Oms, R Hammonds & I Keygnaert Discrimination and health - J H Magnus Immigrants' use of primary health care services: overuse, underuse or both? - E Diaz & BN Kumar Part 2: A life course perspective on migrant health- Y ben Shlomo, L Mamluk & S Redwood Promoting the Health of Migrant Children and Children of Immigrants -K M Perreira & L T Fadnes Adolescent migrant health -M Catallozzi, C A Kolff, R Fowler & T McGovern Health care for older and elderly immigrants - C O'Donnell Family and group as a unit of care - B Kiely &B Viken, Part 3: Health challenges at the clinic- M van den Muijsenbergh Gynaecology and obstetrics- B Austveg, K A Moen Chronic disease prevention and management: an understated priority N Nitti Understanding unexplained and complex symptoms and diseases - M Sodemann Cancer among immigrant patients- K Albrecht & S De Maesschalck Immigration and Mental health - R Farrington Multimorbidity- the complexity - A Calderon & L Gimeno Part 4: Opportunities and tools when meeting immigrant patients- C Phillips & J Benson Bridging Cultural and Language Discordance - E Diaz & BN Kumar Evidence Based Guidelines and Advocacy- K Pottie Diversity sensitive versus adapted services for immigrants: the example of dementia care in Germany - O Razum & H Tezcan-Guentekin Assessments tools for dementia an depression in older immigrants - T R Nielsen & M Norredam Community participation in primary healthcare: meaningful involvement of immigrants- A MacFarlane & C Lionis

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.

Reviews for Migrant Health: A Primary Care Perspective

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 that clinicians 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 experience with. Vincent F Carr, DO, MSA, FACC, FACP(Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences)