Background: The provision of healthcare for immigrants is a global issue. Understanding the complexities of migrant's experiences seeking healthcare is essential to improving their ability to access healthcare. This qualitative study reports on the experiences seeking healthcare for three groups of ...
But the U.S. immigration system stops many of those skilled migrants from coming to the U.S. and also force healthcare workers to leave the country when their temporary immigration status expires. Democrats say one in four doctors and one in six nurses are immigrants, which is why they wan...
Theoretically, culturally-sensitive health care is perceived as an effective means for promoting better health statuses for immigrants [62, 63]. This can help overcome the powerlessness that immigrants often feel when they are excluded from the dominant culture of their destination countries. However,...
United States (US) in the last quarter century has experienced a wave of immigrants who need to be understood at least from three interrelated perspectives: i) cultural, as most of the immigrants in this period are from non-European nations and join the expanding groups of minorities; ii) th...
“Immigrants often punch above their weight, representing a larger share of workers in healthcare roles like physicians, surgeons, dental hygienists, and respiratory therapists than their share of the population,” the report found. But “although there is a growing need for healthcare workers, ma...
The Hudson Valley in New York State has seen a dramatic rise in the population of recent immigrants over the last decade. Barriers to accessing health care for this community continue to exist today and represent an ongoing deficit in the overall health of our community. A study conducted in ...
healthcare experiences. Eight articles discussed the impact of culture on the healthcare experiences of African immigrants in the U.S. [11,61,68,69,71,72,73,74]. In African immigrant communities, for example, diseases such as HIV and cancer are viewed as the result of spiritual issues?
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The interviewees relied on “referents”: professional referents (to be properly treated for specific health problems), guides (to find their way through the healthcare system), or practical referents (to address practical issues such as translation, travel needs, or medical matters). Those who...
Notably, the present study did not find evidence that immigrant women under-utilized Canada's healthcare system. However, the findings showed that chronic health issues were more likely to decrease women's life satisfaction.,This analysis contributes to the understanding of immigrant women's ...