title: [Health care among older people with Turkish migration background: qualitative survey of health mediators].
abstract: BACKGROUND
  Older people with a Turkish migration background face various barriers in terms of access to and quality of health care. Providing health care according to their subjective and objective needs is of increasing importance considering demographic aging. The aim of this study was to illustrate challenges older migrants experience in the health care process from the viewpoint of health mediators.
  
  
  METHODS
  Construct interviews were conducted with six health mediators and were analyzed by means of content analysis.
  
  
  RESULTS
  The interviews showed three different challenges in health care for people with a Turkish migration background. These were the patients' coping with the disease, their health beliefs, and factors associated with the health care process and the doctor-patient relationship.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  The study highlights that it is important to make health care institutions aware of the culture specific characteristics of illness and therapy beliefs among people with a Turkish migrations background. Diversity management is an adequate strategy to adjust health care to the needs and requirements of an increasingly diverse population.
authors.affiliation: AG Epidemiologie & International Public Health, Fakultät für Gesundheitswissenschaften, Universität Bielefeld, Universitätsstr. 25, 33615, Bielefeld, Deutschland. yuece.yilmaz-aslan@uni-bielefeld.de
authors.forename: Y
authors.initials: Y
authors.lastname: Yilmaz-Aslan
authors.forename: P
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Brzoska
authors.forename: E-M
authors.initials: EM
authors.lastname: Berens
authors.forename: R
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Salman
authors.forename: O
authors.initials: O
authors.lastname: Razum
mesh_terms: D017677:Age Distribution; D000368:Aged; D000369:Aged, 80 and over; D063506:Ageism / Q000208:ethnology* / Q000706:statistics & numerical data; D001294:Attitude to Health / Q000208:ethnology*; D005260:Female; D005858:Germany / Q000453:epidemiology; D015276:Health Care Rationing / Q000706:statistics & numerical data*; D054625:Healthcare Disparities / Q000208:ethnology* / Q000706:statistics & numerical data; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D063508:Social Discrimination / Q000208:ethnology* / Q000706:statistics & numerical data; D012935:Social Justice; D012959:Socioeconomic Factors; D014171:Transients and Migrants / Q000706:statistics & numerical data*; D014421:Turkey / Q000208:ethnology