[Reaching migrants for preventive care: optimization of access and utilization].
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.
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Ulla
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Stiftungslehrstuhl Prävention und Rehabilitation in der System- und Versorgungsforschung an der Abt. Epidemiologie, Sozialmedizin und Gesundheitssystemforschung, Medizinische Hochschule Hannover, Hannover. walter.ulla@mh-hannover.de
Salman
Ramazan
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Krauth
Christian
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Machleidt
Wielant
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D001294:Attitude to Health / Q000208:ethnology*; D054242:Emigrants and Immigrants / Q000523:psychology* / Q000706:statistics & numerical data; D005006:Ethnicity / Q000208:ethnology / Q000523:psychology* / Q000706:statistics & numerical data; D005858:Germany; D006266:Health Education / Q000706:statistics & numerical data; D006293:Health Promotion / Q000706:statistics & numerical data; D006297:Health Services Accessibility / Q000706:statistics & numerical data*; D006301:Health Services Needs and Demand / Q000706:statistics & numerical data; D006801:Humans; D019303:Multilingualism; D011314:Preventive Health Services / Q000706:statistics & numerical data*; D014600:Utilization Review / Q000706:statistics & numerical data