Ohmans P, Garrett C, Treichel C
Center for Cross-Cultural Health based in Minneapolis, USA.
Minn Med. 1996 May;79(5):26-30.
What are the barriers to good health care for immigrants who have come to the Minneapolis-St. Paul metropolitan area since the early 1980s? Why do immigrants often delay or avoid seeking mainstream health care services? The research described here examines these questions from the perspective of nonimmigrant health care providers in the Twin Cities. The 24 metropolitan health care providers interviewed in our study confirmed the existence of significant barriers to health care-barriers that probably differ from those experienced by nonimmigrant patients. Refugees and immigrants from other cultures had varying culturally based reactions to Western-style, allopathic medicine-some positive and many negative. Providers and administrators must consider these barriers when serving a growing population of immigrant patients.
自20世纪80年代初以来，来到明尼阿波利斯-圣保罗大都市地区的移民在获得优质医疗保健方面面临哪些障碍？为什么移民经常推迟或避免寻求主流医疗保健服务？这里所描述的研究从双城非移民医疗保健提供者的角度审视了这些问题。我们研究中采访的24位大都市医疗保健提供者证实，存在重大的医疗保健障碍——这些障碍可能与非移民患者所经历的不同。来自其他文化的难民和移民对西式对抗疗法有不同的基于文化的反应——一些是积极的，许多是消极的。在为越来越多的移民患者提供服务时，提供者和管理人员必须考虑这些障碍。
