How immigration affects healthcare : healthcare provision in multicultural environment
Lunkuse, Teddy; Korir, Pius (2016)
Lunkuse, Teddy
Korir, Pius
Turun ammattikorkeakoulu
2016
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https://urn.fi/URN:NBN:fi:amk-201605208809
https://urn.fi/URN:NBN:fi:amk-201605208809
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This thesis describes the health problems faced by immigrates and healthcare providers. The project defines the relationship between these two parties, further reveals the consequences and possible difficulties. This study aims to examine different challenging factors between the health care providers and immigrant patients
The project inspiration is due to the increasing number of immigrant patients in health services with relation to the potential influence of health workers’ cultural and clinical competence. This project portrays a significant proportion of migrants experiencing delays, complications, or denial of medically necessary treatment while accessing the healthcare system especially due to cultural difference and ignorance.
This study based on seven research articles; result is a PowerPoint presentation that provides recommendation and guidelines to health care professionals working in multicultural healthcare systems.
Discussion; this part explains the different challenges for both immigrates and healthcare workers all portrayed from the articles used for the study. Includes related solutions about the PowerPoint presentation knowledge and material searched from additional different sources. (All included in the reference list).
Conclusion: Cultural competence training is a necessity in modern day nursing. While effective communication is compulsory in provision of care, re-assurance, compassion, comfort, should be implemented by caregivers in process of assisting the immigrants, after all, they are usually traumatized, fearful, and are trying to cope with new environment. Whereas, lacking support from family and other support systems. Immigration is a progressive trend, research on medical, social, cultural and religious practises is a necessity for cultural competence. Further research on pre-migratory stressors and factors contributing to barriers in communication is necessary in the process of creating a better service delivery system to ethnically isolated immigrants.
The project inspiration is due to the increasing number of immigrant patients in health services with relation to the potential influence of health workers’ cultural and clinical competence. This project portrays a significant proportion of migrants experiencing delays, complications, or denial of medically necessary treatment while accessing the healthcare system especially due to cultural difference and ignorance.
This study based on seven research articles; result is a PowerPoint presentation that provides recommendation and guidelines to health care professionals working in multicultural healthcare systems.
Discussion; this part explains the different challenges for both immigrates and healthcare workers all portrayed from the articles used for the study. Includes related solutions about the PowerPoint presentation knowledge and material searched from additional different sources. (All included in the reference list).
Conclusion: Cultural competence training is a necessity in modern day nursing. While effective communication is compulsory in provision of care, re-assurance, compassion, comfort, should be implemented by caregivers in process of assisting the immigrants, after all, they are usually traumatized, fearful, and are trying to cope with new environment. Whereas, lacking support from family and other support systems. Immigration is a progressive trend, research on medical, social, cultural and religious practises is a necessity for cultural competence. Further research on pre-migratory stressors and factors contributing to barriers in communication is necessary in the process of creating a better service delivery system to ethnically isolated immigrants.