MIGRANTS AND HEALTH by Christiane Falge, Carlo Ruzza, Oliver Schmidtke ( 9780754679158 )

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Title:

MIGRANTS AND HEALTH
POLITICAL AND INSTITUTIONAL RESPONSES TO CULTURAL DIVERSITY IN HEALTH SYSTEMS

By:

Christiane Falge, Carlo Ruzza, Oliver Schmidtke

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Hardback

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ISBN 10:

0754679152

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9780754679158

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Publisher:

TAYLOR & FRANCIS LTD

Pub. date:

28 May, 2012

Series:

Global Health

Pages:

220

Description:

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.

Synopsis:

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 book achieves the following: - Provides a conceptual framework to link patterns of political advocacy/mobilization and processes of migrants' socio-political inclusion - Integrates the (multi-disciplinary) literature on political mobilization and accommodating cultural diversity in an innovative fashion - Presents a comparative study on accommodating diversity in the health care system from a comparative transatlantic perspective - Generates insight into best practices in the health care system that will be of interest to scholars as well as practitioners in the field. The analysis of health care provision offers an opportunity to test new public policy strategies and the policy consequences of the now widespread aspiration to include citizens more fully in designing and implementing them.

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Ashgate Publishing Limited

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