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 diseases. 3. The patient’s limited access to health care facilities due to information deficits and language barriers ( migrants, access to health care). This mismanagement does not only relate to the medical treatment per se. More importantly, it also includes preventive activities such as the provision of vaccination to migrant children ( migrant children) or effective advice on the prevention of sexually transmitted diseases.

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