title: [Health disparities: local realities and future challenges].
abstract: Since 1887, the Policlinique Médicale Universitaire (PMU) has brought care to vulnerable populations who are at risk of poor physical, mental and social health. These include marginalised Swiss natives and immigrant communities (asylum seekers, undocumented immigrants). These patients are at risk of health disparities given their poor access to the health care system and lack of adapted quality care. Clinical approach must address these potential disparities, reinforced by a research describing them in order to explain their cause, and propose possible solutions, and a medical training addressing these topics from the undergraduate to the attending level. Through those holistic clinical approach, robust research and improved medical training, health providers will contribute to give quality care to all citizens, without exception!
authors.affiliation: PMU, 1011 Lausanne. patrick.bodenmann@hospvd.ch
authors.forename: P
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Bodenmann
authors.forename: A R
authors.initials: AR
authors.lastname: Green
mesh_terms: D003695:Delivery of Health Care / Q000592:standards*; D054242:Emigrants and Immigrants / Q000706:statistics & numerical data; D006297:Health Services Accessibility; D054624:Health Status Disparities; D006801:Humans; D011787:Quality of Health Care; D012306:Risk; D062487:Social Marginalization; D013557:Switzerland