Bridging the gap: Health care in a super-diverse society
The Network on Migration and Global Mobility and the Institute of Tropical Medicine are continuing the series of annual seminars on migrant health, this year in collaboration with the Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences. This 5th edition focuses on the topic Bridging the gap: Health care in a super-diverse society.
Belgium is increasingly defined as a super-diverse society given the multiplicity of ethnic, cultural, religious and linguistic groups that inhabit the country. In this context, legal status, administrative hurdles, language barriers and cultural differences are only some of the many factors that may affect the possibilities of patients to seek treatment and the capabilities of health care professionals to retain everyone in care. In Flanders, networks of primary care providers and welfare actors (“eerstlijnszones”) focus on local prevention and care needs and aim to establish integrated care, yet they encounter challenges to reach the most vulnerable groups. This Migration and Health seminar will highlight how barriers along the entire care continuum (health promotion, access to and retention in care) work both ways and can be overcome. The seminar will explore challenges from provider and patient perspectives, identify the gaps and showcase scientific projects and local initiatives with migrant, refugee and more generally culturally/religious/linguistic diverse populations to develop a more accessible and equal primary care system for all.
This seminar will address these questions through different presentations from experts from researchers and civil society members.
When? 14th of November, 1.30 PM – 4:30 PM, followed by a networking reception
Where? The seminar will be hosted in S.B.003 Stadscampus, University of Antwerp
For whom? researchers with an interest in the subject, health practitioners, welfare workers, policy makers and other interested audiences
The organising committee
Christiane Nöstlinger (Institute of Tropical Medicine) and Milena Belloni (MIGLOBA - Network on Migration and Global Mobility, University of Antwerp), Jasna Loos (Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences, University of Antwerp), Imane Bendra (MIGLOBA - Network on Migration and Global Mobility, University of Antwerp), and Ella Van Landeghem (Department of Public Health, Institute of Tropical Medicine)
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