Mental health articles

Public Health Recommendations Public health programs are needed that address these issues and lead to a better health service for migrant populations. To start with, it has to be realized that migrant groups differ ( migrants, diversity management). In order to provide an effective service the origin of the migrant has to be considered, because […]

Managing Diversity in Public Health Managing Diversity – Internally and Externally Diversity is a challenge to Public Health organizations and professionals and requires a proactivemanagement. Diversity management in Public Health covers both an outward-oriented and an inward-oriented strategy. The outward-oriented strategy promotes and favors services that are appropriate for, and responsive to, diversity by ensuring […]

Migrants are found to be a population group with specific health risks. Their access to health and social care facilities is often limited compared to that of the indigenous population. These now well-known facts were explored and discussed in health sciences for several decades. More recently, the impact of these facts on the ageing migrant […]

Migrant Mortality and Public Health Given the unexplained nature of observed mortality differentials, the mortality of migrants cannot be considered a good indicator for their socioeconomic and general health status. It is well conceivable that migrants from Mediterranean countries are disadvantaged in many respects in an industrialized host country of the north, and yet their cardiovascular […]

The Emerging New Public Health Paradigm and Practice Within the field of men’s health, there is a growing call for a new approach in terms of public health practice. Rather than working within the negative paradigm of pathologising men’s health, leading academicswithin the field, such as Professor John Macdonald at the University of Western Sydney […]