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Perceptions and Experiences of Health and Social Care Utilisation of the UK-Nepali Population
With the growing UK Nepali community, understanding their health and social care needs is an essential to reduce health and social care inequalities. However, very little is known about the health, wellbeing and utilisation of health and social care services among the Nepali population in the UK. Th...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7914234/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/31960256 http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s10903-020-00976-w |
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author | Simkhada, Bibha Sah, Rajeeb Kumar Mercel-Sanca, Alan van Teijlingen, Edwin Bhurtyal, Yagya Murti Regmi, Pramod |
author_facet | Simkhada, Bibha Sah, Rajeeb Kumar Mercel-Sanca, Alan van Teijlingen, Edwin Bhurtyal, Yagya Murti Regmi, Pramod |
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description | With the growing UK Nepali community, understanding their health and social care needs is an essential to reduce health and social care inequalities. However, very little is known about the health, wellbeing and utilisation of health and social care services among the Nepali population in the UK. Therefore, this study set out to identify health and social care needs of Nepali community. The mixed-methods study was conducted with the Nepali population living in London. It consists of a semi-structured survey (N = 345); three focus group discussions and three key informant interviews. The mean age of the participants was 40.6 (± 17.6). About 28% of our sample reported having chronic health problems. About 60% currently consume alcohol and 21% were smokers. Male participants (35%) more likely to be physically active than females (21%). Registration with a family doctor/general practitioner (GP) was high (96%). However, uptake of disease screening was very low (28%). In the preceding year, 17% had experienced poor mental or emotional health. The findings also suggest language is a key barrier to utilise health and social care among UK Nepali. We suggest removing the language barrier is essential step to improve access to available health and social care services. A culturally sensitive educational initiative creating awareness about the structure of UK health and social care services is required to offer to this community. |
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spelling | pubmed-79142342021-03-15 Perceptions and Experiences of Health and Social Care Utilisation of the UK-Nepali Population Simkhada, Bibha Sah, Rajeeb Kumar Mercel-Sanca, Alan van Teijlingen, Edwin Bhurtyal, Yagya Murti Regmi, Pramod J Immigr Minor Health Original Paper With the growing UK Nepali community, understanding their health and social care needs is an essential to reduce health and social care inequalities. However, very little is known about the health, wellbeing and utilisation of health and social care services among the Nepali population in the UK. Therefore, this study set out to identify health and social care needs of Nepali community. The mixed-methods study was conducted with the Nepali population living in London. It consists of a semi-structured survey (N = 345); three focus group discussions and three key informant interviews. The mean age of the participants was 40.6 (± 17.6). About 28% of our sample reported having chronic health problems. About 60% currently consume alcohol and 21% were smokers. Male participants (35%) more likely to be physically active than females (21%). Registration with a family doctor/general practitioner (GP) was high (96%). However, uptake of disease screening was very low (28%). In the preceding year, 17% had experienced poor mental or emotional health. The findings also suggest language is a key barrier to utilise health and social care among UK Nepali. We suggest removing the language barrier is essential step to improve access to available health and social care services. A culturally sensitive educational initiative creating awareness about the structure of UK health and social care services is required to offer to this community. Springer US 2020-01-20 2021 /pmc/articles/PMC7914234/ /pubmed/31960256 http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s10903-020-00976-w Text en © The Author(s) 2020 Open AccessThis article is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License, which permits use, sharing, adaptation, distribution and reproduction in any medium or format, as long as you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons licence, and indicate if changes were made. The images or other third party material in this article are included in the article's Creative Commons licence, unless indicated otherwise in a credit line to the material. If material is not included in the article's Creative Commons licence and your intended use is not permitted by statutory regulation or exceeds the permitted use, you will need to obtain permission directly from the copyright holder. To view a copy of this licence, visit http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/. |
spellingShingle | Original Paper Simkhada, Bibha Sah, Rajeeb Kumar Mercel-Sanca, Alan van Teijlingen, Edwin Bhurtyal, Yagya Murti Regmi, Pramod Perceptions and Experiences of Health and Social Care Utilisation of the UK-Nepali Population |
title | Perceptions and Experiences of Health and Social Care Utilisation of the UK-Nepali Population |
title_full | Perceptions and Experiences of Health and Social Care Utilisation of the UK-Nepali Population |
title_fullStr | Perceptions and Experiences of Health and Social Care Utilisation of the UK-Nepali Population |
title_full_unstemmed | Perceptions and Experiences of Health and Social Care Utilisation of the UK-Nepali Population |
title_short | Perceptions and Experiences of Health and Social Care Utilisation of the UK-Nepali Population |
title_sort | perceptions and experiences of health and social care utilisation of the uk-nepali population |
topic | Original Paper |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7914234/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/31960256 http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s10903-020-00976-w |
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