Erschienen in:
01.12.2014 | Commentary
Addressing health-related interventions to immigrants: migrant-specific or diversity-sensitive?
verfasst von:
Oliver Razum, Jacob Spallek
Erschienen in:
International Journal of Public Health
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Ausgabe 6/2014
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Excerpt
Immigrants and their offspring are often disadvantaged in terms of health and access to health care including preventive interventions, relative to the majority populations (Smith Nielsen and Krasnik
2010; Spallek et al.
2010; Harris
2012). There is broad agreement by now that this health disadvantage is to a substantial part explained by the same social determinants that also operate on the host populations (Reijneveld
2010; Razum and Stronks
2014). But besides tackling social determinants (Graham and Kelly
2004), we also need to make sure that immigrants receive culturally appropriate health care without discrimination (Reijneveld
2010). …