Sante Publique
Volume 8, Issue 3, 1996, Pages 233-248

Health care policy for muslim immigrants in French-speaking Belgium: 30-year experience [Discours et pratiques de sante publique sur l'immigration mulsumane en Belgique francophone: Trente and d'evolution] (Review)

Es Safi L.* , Manço A.
  • a Université de Liège, Grp. Rech. Economiques Sociales Pop., 7, bd du Rectorat (B31 - Bte 9), B-4000 Liège/Sart-Tilman, Belgium
  • b Université de Liège, Grp. Rech. Economiques Sociales Pop., 7, bd du Rectorat (B31 - Bte 9), B-4000 Liège/Sart-Tilman, Belgium

Abstract

This article tries to define the evolution of preoccupations and actions concerning health policies applied to the population coming from muslim immigration in French speaking Belgium. The objective of this research is to define the evolution of the perception of needs and health problems as for muslim migrants (especially for Turkish and North Africans) that the experts and efficient organizations have been able to develop. It also deals with the links between these states and the great sociohistorical stages of the migrants families settlings in the French community in Belgium, and also the links between these precedent states and the evolution of the government policies of health, welcome and integration. The movement of ideas and the interventions concerning the field of health seem to be influenced by several factors: the perceptions and techniques have been adapted to the main structuration of the migrant community. They have also followed the political priorities as for migration. Besides, those have been adapted to the global evolution of public health actions' philosphies.

Author Keywords

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Index Keywords

moslem immigrant Review Belgium health care policy human

Link
https://www.scopus.com/inward/record.uri?eid=2-s2.0-0029808743&partnerID=40&md5=9a09e5ee642c8726bee8c6e2e5274ff5

ISSN: 09953914
Cited by: 1
Original Language: French