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Europæisk forskningssamarbejde vedr. migration og sundhed . Netværksmøde 22. februar 2007 Allan Krasnik Dept. of Health Services Research University of Copenhagen. EUPHA section: migrant health EU-project: Monitoring the health status of migrants within Europe
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Europæisk forskningssamarbejde vedr. migration og sundhed Netværksmøde 22. februar 2007 Allan Krasnik Dept. of Health Services Research University of Copenhagen
EUPHA section: migrant health • EU-project: Monitoring the health status of migrants within Europe • COST-action: Health and social care for migrants and ethnic minorities in Europe
EUPHA section: Migrant Health • Build a network of health professionals on migration and health from a public health perspective • Increase the knowledge on differences in health problems, use and quality of health care services and on interventions to tackle these differences • Discuss conceptual and methodological issues regarding ethnic differences in health and health care • Develop strategies to influence national and European policy makers and politicians to increase attention for ethnic health and health care differences • Initiate and further use of standard identification methods and data collection procedures.
Activities • The section encourages presentations at the annual EUPHA meeting • organize yearly at least one workshop on conceptual/methodological issues • national and international workshops and conferences will be stimulated • publications for the European Journal of Public Health will be encouraged.
Contact person Dr. Walter Devillé NIVEL (Netherlands Institute for Health Services Research) Otterstraat 118-124 Postbox 1568 3500 BN Utrecht The Netherlands T: +31 302729647 F: +31 302729729 Email: w.deville@nivel.nl
2. EU-project: Monitoring the health status of migrants within Europe • Inventory of available and appropriate databases and survey data for ethnic minority populations • Develop indicators expressing differences in health • Illustrate the use of these indicators
Special themes • Mortality • Cardiovascular diseases • Infectious diseases • Cancer • Reproductive health • Percieved health • Health care use • Health of Roma
Participants and time schedule • Institute of Health Policy and Management, Erasmus University, Rotterdam (coordinator) • Associated partners in UK, NL, Germany, Italy, Hungary + collaborating partners • 1. January 2007 – 31.December 2009
3. COST-action: Health and social care for migrants and ethnic minorities in Europe • COST = European Co-operation in the field of Scientific and Technical Research • Bringing to-gether international groups of experts to consolidate and review work carried out so far, identify blind spots and persistent problems and recommend the way forward
Three working parties • Social context and policies relating to immigrants • Migrants’ state of health and its determinants • Health care for migrants and ways of improving it
Activities • State of the art reports • Workshops • Conferences • Joint publications • Training activities
Participants • Experts from 23 countries (DK: Tine Curtis og Allan Krasnik) • Coordinator: Professor Ingleby, European Research Centre on Migration and Ethnic Relations, Utrecht University