Mental health articles

Underutilization of Health Services From a public health perspective, migrants are generally underserved or inadequately treated in their host countries, e. g. with regard to the management of infectious diseases. This has several reasons: 1. the patient’s (migrant’s) poor knowledge about the disease. 2. The physician’s or health care worker’s poor knowledge of rare tropical […]

Social and Health Services for Ageing Migrants A variety of social and health care services has been established in the last decades in countries of high income to support the elderly and very old and their families. Many of these services are criticized for being insufficient and insensitive to the specific demands of ageing migrants. […]