title: [Mental stress of immigrant patients and the family practice].
abstract: People of non-German background still have difficulties obtaining adequate access to the German health care system. Reasons include communication barriers, differences in the concept of disease and low level of education in addition to a frequently difficult social situation and immigration-related stress factors. The majority of the patients consult the family physician first. Taking into consideration the different cultural concepts of disease and immigration-specific stress factors opens new therapeutic options and expands the intercultural competence of the treating physician.
authors.affiliation: Klinik für Psychiatrie und Psychotherapie, Marburg-Süd. eckhardt.koch@kpp-marburg-sued.de
authors.forename: E
authors.initials: E
authors.lastname: Koch
authors.forename: M J
authors.initials: MJ
authors.lastname: Müller
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D000328:Adult; D000367:Age Factors; D000553:Ambulatory Care; D002648:Child; D003469:Culture; D054242:Emigrants and Immigrants / Q000523:psychology; D005194:Family Practice; D005858:Germany; D006760:Hospitalization; D006801:Humans; D001523:Mental Disorders / Q000453:epidemiology* / Q000628:therapy; D008875:Middle Aged; D010817:Physician-Patient Relations; D012959:Socioeconomic Factors; D013001:Somatoform Disorders / Q000453:epidemiology*; D013315:Stress, Psychological; D014421:Turkey / Q000208:ethnology