[Health care for migrant patients: primary care or specialized medicine?].
When consulting with migrant patients, general practitioners should pay special attention to the quality of their communication, because language barriers and cultural differences may arise. They must also be aware that life events experienced in the home country, during transit and in the host country can impact negatively on their patients' health, and thus a detailed history must be carefully obtained. Finally, they must be conscious that the migratory policies of the host country can influence the delivery of health care to migrant patients as well as their health status.
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Centre santé migrants, Service de médecine de premier recours, Département de médecine communautaire, HUG, 1203 Genève. sophie.durieux@hcuge.ch
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M Dominicé
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Perron
N Junod
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D003695:Delivery of Health Care / Q000379:methods*; D006801:Humans; D008511:Medicine; D011320:Primary Health Care; D013038:Specialization; D014171:Transients and Migrants