Psychiatrische Praxis
Volume 34, Issue 7, 2007, Pages 349-353

Reaching migrants for preventive care: Optimization of access and utilization [Migranten gezielt erreichen: Zugangswege zur optimierung der inanspruchnahme präventiver maßnahmen] (Review)

Walter U.* , Salman R. , Krauth C. , Machleidt W.
  • a Stiftungslehrstuhl Prävention und Rehabilitation in der System- und Versorgungsforschung, Abt. Epidemiologie, Sozialmedizin und Gesundheitssystemforschung, Medizinische Hochschule Hannover, Germany, Medizinische Hochschule Hannover, Stiftungslehrstuhl Prävention und Rehabilitation in der System- und Versorgungsforschung, Abt. Epidemiologie, Sozialmedizin und Gesundheitssystemforschung, 30625 Hannover, Germany
  • b Ethno-Medizinisches Zentrum e.V., Hannover, Germany, Medizinische Hochschule Hannover, Abt. Sozialpsychiatrie und Psychotherapie, Germany
  • c Medizinische Hochschule Hannover, Abt. Epidemiologie, Sozialmedizin und Gesundheitssystemforschung, Germany
  • d Medizinische Hochschule Hannover, Abt. Sozialpsychiatrie und Psychotherapie, Germany

Abstract

Migrants belong to the hard-to-reach group in health and preventive care. Essential criteria for the sustainable effectiveness of preventive and health promotion consist in the proper selection of target groups and successfully approaching them. The knowledge of possible barriers that make the access to preventive care and health promotion more difficult, e.g. low health literacy, that means the difficulties of linguistic understanding or the low acceptance regarding the provider, is necessary in order to select adequate access possibilities to the defined target groups. Up to now, for this and particularly for the ethno-specific health behaviour of migrants in Germany information hardly exist. So far, there are only a few preventive offers which are target group focussed. The use of native speaking preventive consultants is an attempt to improve the access to preventive care for migrants by low threshold come and access-structures. © Georg Thieme Verlag KG Stuttgart.

Author Keywords

Migrants Reachability Native speaking prevention consultant Access prevention

Index Keywords

Germany health promotion Preventive Health Services human Health Behavior language ability Ethnic Groups Health Services Needs and Demand Humans Emigrants and Immigrants Review health care health care utilization health education migration Utilization Review Health Services Accessibility attitude to health Multilingualism
Link
https://www.scopus.com/inward/record.uri?eid=2-s2.0-35648983516&doi=10.1055%2fs-2007-986194&partnerID=40&md5=8ce7d9d9cd278fbbe76fcac1fb53c1d3
DOI: 10.1055/s-2007-986194
ISSN: 03034259
Cited by: 19
Original Language: German