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S02.01 - Access to mental health care: How can barriers for migrants be reduced?

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  16 April 2020

C. Haasen ,
A. Agorastos ,
C. Demiralay  and
J. Reimer
C. Haasen
Affiliation:
Department of Psychiatry, University Medical Center Eppendorf, Hamburg, Germany
A. Agorastos
Affiliation:
Department of Psychiatry, University Medical Center Eppendorf, Hamburg, Germany
C. Demiralay
Affiliation:
Department of Psychiatry, University Medical Center Eppendorf, Hamburg, Germany
J. Reimer
Affiliation:
Department of Psychiatry, University Medical Center Eppendorf, Hamburg, Germany

Abstract

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Background:

There is sufficient evidence in different countries, that migrants from different cultural backgrounds do not use mental health services to the same extent as natives. Reasons are different barriers in the access to care for migrants with mental health problems. These barriers can be found both on the institutional level as well as on the subjective level of the patients and caregivers themselves.

Methods:

Qualitative analysis of barriers in the access to care.

Results:

The institutional barriers are mainly a lack of information about and for migrants, as well as a lack of more specific treatment modalities. The subjective barriers are associated with issues of discrimination as well as preconceptions about mental health services and disorders.

Conclusions:

Several measures are being undertaken in different countries to reduce these barriers in the access of care for mentally ill migrants in Europe.

Type
Symposium: Pathways to care and the immigrant patient: Ethical perspectives from cultural psychiatry
Information
European Psychiatry , Volume 23 , Issue S2: 16th AEP Congress - Abstract book - 16th AEP Congress , April 2008 , pp. S4
Copyright
Copyright © European Psychiatric Association 2008
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