Santos-Hövener Claudia, Schumann Maria, Schmich Patrick, Gößwald Antje, Rommel Alexander, Ziese Thomas, Lampert Thomas
Robert Koch Institute, Berlin Department of Epidemiology and Health Monitoring.
J Health Monit. 2019 Mar 14;4(1):46-57. doi: 10.25646/5874. eCollection 2019 Mar.
Germany is an immigration country and nearly a quarter of its population has a migration background. Thus, there is increasingly a need for reliable information on the health situation of people with a migration background. The Robert Koch Institute is in charge of expanding its health monitoring to improve the representation of people with a migration background in interview and examination surveys. Studies adequately need to reflect the health status of people with a migration background and currently the Robert Koch Institute's representative interview and examination surveys for adults do not fully achieve this. At the end of 2016, therefore, the Improving Health Monitoring in Migrant Populations (IMIRA) project was initiated aiming to expand the Robert Koch Institute's health monitoring to people with migration background and improve their involvement in health surveys in the long-term. This includes carrying out two feasibility studies to test strategies to reach and recruit people with migration background for interview surveys and develop measures to overcome language barriers in examination surveys. In order to expand health reporting on migration and health, a reporting concept and a core indicator set will be developed and the potential of (secondary) data sources will be tested. Furthermore, plans foresee the testing and further development of relevant specific migration sensitive survey instruments and indicators, as well as increasing networking with relevant stakeholders.
德国是一个移民国家，近四分之一的人口有移民背景。因此，越来越需要有关有移民背景人群健康状况的可靠信息。罗伯特·科赫研究所负责扩大其健康监测，以提高有移民背景人群在访谈和检查调查中的代表性。各项研究需要充分反映有移民背景人群的健康状况，而目前罗伯特·科赫研究所针对成年人的代表性访谈和检查调查并未完全做到这一点。因此，在2016年底启动了“改善移民人口健康监测”（IMIRA）项目，旨在将罗伯特·科赫研究所的健康监测扩大到有移民背景的人群，并长期改善他们参与健康调查的情况。这包括开展两项可行性研究，以测试在访谈调查中接触和招募有移民背景人群的策略，并制定措施克服检查调查中的语言障碍。为了扩大关于移民与健康的健康报告，将制定一个报告概念和一套核心指标，并测试（二手）数据源的潜力。此外，计划还包括测试和进一步开发相关的特定移民敏感调查工具和指标，以及加强与相关利益攸关方的联络。
