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Migrants and Health
Christiane Falge
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Description for Migrants and Health
Hardcover. Seeks to understand patterns of changing institutional practices and public policies where the challenges of including cultural diversity into the social fabric are most pronounced: namely the health care system. Series Editor(s): Poku, Professor Nana K. Series: Global Health. Num Pages: 220 pages, Includes 1 b&w illustration. BIC Classification: JFFN; MBN; MBP. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 234 x 156 x 14. Weight in Grams: 554.
Integrating newcomers and minorities into the social fabric of receiving countries has become one of the crucial challenges of contemporary Western societies. This volume seeks to understand patterns of changing institutional practices and public policies where the challenges of including cultural diversity into the social fabric are most pronounced: namely the health care system. In recent years, pro-migrant organizations and anti-racist activists have repeatedly voiced and politicized demands to improve migrants' access to the health-care system giving rise to a lively debate about migrants' access to health-care and responsiveness of institutions to their needs. In a nutshell the ... Read more
Integrating newcomers and minorities into the social fabric of receiving countries has become one of the crucial challenges of contemporary Western societies. This volume seeks to understand patterns of changing institutional practices and public policies where the challenges of including cultural diversity into the social fabric are most pronounced: namely the health care system. In recent years, pro-migrant organizations and anti-racist activists have repeatedly voiced and politicized demands to improve migrants' access to the health-care system giving rise to a lively debate about migrants' access to health-care and responsiveness of institutions to their needs. In a nutshell the ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2012
Publisher
Taylor & Francis Ltd United Kingdom
Number of pages
220
Condition
New
Series
Global Health
Number of Pages
220
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780754679158
SKU
V9780754679158
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About Christiane Falge
Dr Christiane Falge, Institut für Interkulturelle und Internationale Studien (InIIS), Germany, Professor Carlo Ruzza, University of Leicester, UK and Professor Oliver Schmidtke, Director of the European Studies Program, University of Victoria, Canada
Reviews for Migrants and Health
'The relationship between immigrants and health has become a "hot"topic. This book is therefore exceedingly timely and valuable in its comparative approach, exploring how migrants in three different host societies - Canada, Germany, and Italy - access health care resources as well as how the health care system responds to increasing population diversity. These authors clearly demonstrate that locality matters ... Read more