B Schwarz 1 , K Markin 2 , R Salman 2 , C Gutenbrunner 3 Show Affiliations »
Abstract
OBJECTIVE: To identify barriers for migrants regarding the access to medical rehabilitation on behalf of the German Pension Insurance. METHODS: Focus groups with migrants (n=5, 42 participants) and experts (n=1, 14 participants) were conducted and examined by qualitative content analysis. RESULTS: We identified 4 categories of access barriers: 1. system-related, migrant-specific, 2. person-related, migrant-specific, 3. system-related, primarily not migrant-specific, and 4. person-related, primarily not migrant-specific barriers. Barriers in categories 3 and 4 are mostly class- or gender-specific. Due to associations between migration background, social status and gender roles, these barriers are often of specific importance to migrants as well. Taking such intersections of single categories of inequality (migration background, social status, gender) into account, access barriers can interact and form complexes of barriers. CONCLUSION: In order to explain and overcome the low utilization of medical rehabilitation by migrants, the interaction of migrant-, class- and gender-specific barriers in the system and in persons have to be considered. © Georg Thieme Verlag KG Stuttgart · New York.
OBJECTIVE: To identify barriers for migrants regarding the access to medical rehabilitation on behalf of the German Pension Insurance. METHODS: Focus groups with migrants (n=5, 42 participants ) and experts (n=1, 14 participants ) were conducted and examined by qualitative content analysis. RESULTS: We identified 4 categories of access barriers: 1. system-related, migrant-specific, 2. person -related, migrant-specific, 3. system-related, primarily not migrant-specific, and 4. person -related, primarily not migrant-specific barriers. Barriers in categories 3 and 4 are mostly class- or gender-specific. Due to associations between migration background, social status and gender roles, these barriers are often of specific importance to migrants as well. Taking such intersections of single categories of inequality (migration background, social status, gender) into account, access barriers can interact and form complexes of barriers. CONCLUSION: In order to explain and overcome the low utilization of medical rehabilitation by migrants, the interaction of migrant-, class- and gender-specific barriers in the system and in persons have to be considered. © Georg Thieme Verlag KG Stuttgart · New York.
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Year: 2015
PMID： 26676733 DOI： 10.1055/s-0041-108279
Source DB: PubMed Journal: Rehabilitation (Stuttg) ISSN： 0034-3536 Impact factor: 1.113