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Action IS0603 Health and Social Care for Migrants and Ethnic Minorities in Europe (HOME)

Action IS0603 Health and Social Care for Migrants and Ethnic Minorities in Europe (HOME). Participating countries: AT, BE, BG, CY, CZ, DK, MK, FI, FR, DE, EL, HU, IE, IL, IT, LT, MT, NL, NO, PL, PT, RO, SK, SI, ES, SE, CH, TR, UK

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Action IS0603 Health and Social Care for Migrants and Ethnic Minorities in Europe (HOME)

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  1. Action IS0603 Health and Social Care for Migrants and Ethnic Minorities in Europe (HOME) • Participating countries: AT, BE, BG, CY, CZ, DK, MK, FI, FR, DE, EL, • HU, IE, IL, IT, LT, MT, NL, NO, PL, PT, RO, SK, SI, ES, SE, CH, TR, UK • Chair of the Action: David Ingleby, NL, j.d.ingleby@uu.nl • COST Science Officer: Julia Stamm, jstamm@cost.esf.org • Working Group 1 – Policy • Topics studied: • Policies on migrant and minority health • Asylum seekers and refugees • Undocumented migrants • Working Group 2 – State of Health • Topics studied: • Monitoring, registration, categorisation • Perinatal mortality & morbidity • Mental health (including methodological issues) • Health promotion and ‘risky health behaviour’ • Women’s health / gender issues • Health care for children • Health and social care for the elderly Photo by Matías Costa Figure 2: Suspendisse potenti. Nulla dolor metus. Photo by Gary Harwood, Kent State University • Working Group 3 – Health Care • Topics studied: • Communication in health care • The use of ‘cultural mediators’ in health care provision • Community engagement and user involvement • Health care for Roma communities • Health of new labour migrants • Measurement of outcomes • New topics are being added to the agenda of each WG Objectives: Migrants make up a growing proportion of the European population and there is an urgent need for information about their state of health. Existing health services do not always meet migrants’ needs adequately and innovative ‘good practices’ need to be developed, tested and incorporated into health care policies. The addition of a cross-national perspective can yield new insights into the causes of ill-health and further the exchange of good practices. The Action brings together an international group of experts to consolidate and review work carried out so far, identify blind spots and persistent problems, and recommend ways forward. It will produce reports and organise workshops, conferences, joint publications and training activities to discuss and disseminate its findings. Main Achievements: • During the first year of the Action meetings have been held on: • Community engagement, user involvement and health promotion • Health care policy for migrants and ethnic minorities • Migration, psychosis and (compulsory) treatment • Health care for undocumented migrants • Intercultural communication, medical interpretation and cultural mediation • Social care for immigrants • Migrants' health and gender • Members have visited each others’ institutions and are collaborating to develop new research projects on a number of topics within the programme. • The meetings already held have resulted in new publications.

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