Moving towards culturally competent health systems for migrants? Applying systems thinking in a qualitative study in Malaysia and Thailand
Pocock, Nicola Suyin
Chan, Zhie Loganathan, Tharani Suphanchaimat, Rapeepong Kosiyaporn, Hathairat Allotey, Pascale Chan, Wei-Kay Tan, David |
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2020-04-06 | |
Cultural competency describes interventions that aim to improve accessibility and effectiveness of health services for people from ethnic minority backgrounds. Interventions include interpreter services, migrant peer educators and health worker training to provide culturally competent care. Very few studies have focussed on cultural competency for migrant service use in Low- and Middle-Income Countries (LMIC). Migrants and refugees in Thailand and Malaysia report difficulties in accessing health systems and discrimination by service providers. In this paper we describe stakeholder perceptions of migrants’ and health workers’ language and cultural competency, and how this affects migrant workers’ health, especially in Malaysia where an interpreter system has not yet been formalised. |
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