Integration And Health Services Analysis
INTEGRATION AND HEALTHCARE SERVICES
Before starting to analyse the relationship between integration and healthcare services, it’s important to have a focus on what integration really is and how to measure it.
Following the European Union, in order to define and understand the quality and the development of integration it is possible to focus on a list of criteria. Between these criteria, some of the most important are education, social inclusion (in the meaning of social participation and connection ), active citizenship (in the meaning of political participation) and employment ( in fact in many EU member states the percentage of unemployment of people coming from a third world country is two times higher than the percentage of unemployment …show more content…
Discrimination could take place in different ways, from decreasing benefits to third-country citizens while increasing policies in favour of native born citizens, to simply limiting policies in favour of integration. The result of this policies increases the spread between migrants and autochthones and often equality bodies are too slow in order to try to change the …show more content…
Being well included in the society is important for more or less the same reasons: a better knowledge of the healthcare system could in fact depends on being integrated, while being isolated could of course creates more difficulties for migrants on accessing to the services. Moreover, knowing someone who arrived before for the same country could be more beneficial for migrants on making them things easier and helping to understand the healthcare system and issues relates to them.
Being well allocated is clearly another determinant aspect; we have already mentioned that the migrants and refugee’s camps have often low quality standard and that they are located far from the centre of the cities, where usually are located the medical centres and services. Therefore, big distances between camps and places where usually migrants are addressed and services leads to complicate the accessibility to healthcare for migrants, who are more in health’s danger because of the bad conditions of the places where are located. As a result of this, ghettoization is
Before starting to analyse the relationship between integration and healthcare services, it’s important to have a focus on what integration really is and how to measure it.
Following the European Union, in order to define and understand the quality and the development of integration it is possible to focus on a list of criteria. Between these criteria, some of the most important are education, social inclusion (in the meaning of social participation and connection ), active citizenship (in the meaning of political participation) and employment ( in fact in many EU member states the percentage of unemployment of people coming from a third world country is two times higher than the percentage of unemployment …show more content…
Discrimination could take place in different ways, from decreasing benefits to third-country citizens while increasing policies in favour of native born citizens, to simply limiting policies in favour of integration. The result of this policies increases the spread between migrants and autochthones and often equality bodies are too slow in order to try to change the …show more content…
Being well included in the society is important for more or less the same reasons: a better knowledge of the healthcare system could in fact depends on being integrated, while being isolated could of course creates more difficulties for migrants on accessing to the services. Moreover, knowing someone who arrived before for the same country could be more beneficial for migrants on making them things easier and helping to understand the healthcare system and issues relates to them.
Being well allocated is clearly another determinant aspect; we have already mentioned that the migrants and refugee’s camps have often low quality standard and that they are located far from the centre of the cities, where usually are located the medical centres and services. Therefore, big distances between camps and places where usually migrants are addressed and services leads to complicate the accessibility to healthcare for migrants, who are more in health’s danger because of the bad conditions of the places where are located. As a result of this, ghettoization is