Migrant Health A Primary Care Perspective 1st Edition Bernadette N Kumar 1351017179 9781351017176

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• ISBN 10: 1351017179
• ISBN 13: 9781351017176
• Author: Bernadette N Kumar

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.

Table of contents:

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?

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

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

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

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