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Migration and health: exploring healthy ageing of immigrants in European societies

AIM: The aim is to identify important factors for immigrants’ health and well-being and for their use (or non-use) of primary health care (PHC) and other non-specialised services, and for possible ways that PHC can support healthy ageing of immigrants. BACKGROUND: Older persons are an increasing sha...

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Autores principales: Jacobsen, Frode F., Glasdam, Stinne, Schopman, Limke M., Sodemann, Morten, van den Muijsenbergh, Maria E.T.C., Ågotnes, Gudmund
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Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Cambridge University Press 2023
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9971849/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/36733211
http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/S1463423623000014
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author Jacobsen, Frode F.
Glasdam, Stinne
Schopman, Limke M.
Sodemann, Morten
van den Muijsenbergh, Maria E.T.C.
Ågotnes, Gudmund
author_facet Jacobsen, Frode F.
Glasdam, Stinne
Schopman, Limke M.
Sodemann, Morten
van den Muijsenbergh, Maria E.T.C.
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description AIM: The aim is to identify important factors for immigrants’ health and well-being and for their use (or non-use) of primary health care (PHC) and other non-specialised services, and for possible ways that PHC can support healthy ageing of immigrants. BACKGROUND: Older persons are an increasing share of the immigrant population in the global north, frequently in contact with various forms of health services, (PHC services most of all. Consequently, PHC services are in a particularly unique position to support healthy ageing of immigrants. METHODS: The position paper builds on five international, multi-professional and cross-disciplinary small group discussions as well as an international workshop early summer. During the discussions and the workshop, topics were arrived at as to factors related to the health situation of older immigrants, their needs, and health-seeking behaviour, and to how PHC professionals could support healthy ageing in immigrants. Those main topics in turn guided search for relevant research literature and informed the selection of the main research questions of this paper. FINDINGS: Several factors, in addition to culture and cultural differences, are important to for PHC professionals and decision-makers to take into consideration in encounters with older immigrants. The socio-economic position of the older immigrant and close relatives, inter-generational relationships within the immigrant communities, country-specific factors in the host country like health care expenditure, and communication skills in health professionals are all examples of factors playing an important role regarding the health and health-seeking behaviour of older immigrants.
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spelling pubmed-99718492023-03-01 Migration and health: exploring healthy ageing of immigrants in European societies Jacobsen, Frode F. Glasdam, Stinne Schopman, Limke M. Sodemann, Morten van den Muijsenbergh, Maria E.T.C. Ågotnes, Gudmund Prim Health Care Res Dev EFPC Position Papers AIM: The aim is to identify important factors for immigrants’ health and well-being and for their use (or non-use) of primary health care (PHC) and other non-specialised services, and for possible ways that PHC can support healthy ageing of immigrants. BACKGROUND: Older persons are an increasing share of the immigrant population in the global north, frequently in contact with various forms of health services, (PHC services most of all. Consequently, PHC services are in a particularly unique position to support healthy ageing of immigrants. METHODS: The position paper builds on five international, multi-professional and cross-disciplinary small group discussions as well as an international workshop early summer. During the discussions and the workshop, topics were arrived at as to factors related to the health situation of older immigrants, their needs, and health-seeking behaviour, and to how PHC professionals could support healthy ageing in immigrants. Those main topics in turn guided search for relevant research literature and informed the selection of the main research questions of this paper. FINDINGS: Several factors, in addition to culture and cultural differences, are important to for PHC professionals and decision-makers to take into consideration in encounters with older immigrants. The socio-economic position of the older immigrant and close relatives, inter-generational relationships within the immigrant communities, country-specific factors in the host country like health care expenditure, and communication skills in health professionals are all examples of factors playing an important role regarding the health and health-seeking behaviour of older immigrants. Cambridge University Press 2023-02-03 /pmc/articles/PMC9971849/ /pubmed/36733211 http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/S1463423623000014 Text en © The Author(s) 2023 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/This is an Open Access article, distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution licence (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits unrestricted re-use, distribution and reproduction, provided the original article is properly cited.
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