Bridging the gap: Health care in a super-diverse society (Migration & Health seminar)
Background
The Network on Migration and Global Mobility (MIGLOBA) 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 of the University of Antwerp. This fifth edition will focus on "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 (“eerstelijnszones”) 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.
For whom?
Researchers with an interest in the subject, health practitioners, welfare workers, policy makers and other interested audiences.
Registration
Registrations are closed.
Programme
Time | Activity | Speaker |
1:15–1:30pm | Arrival and participants registration | |
1:30–1:40pm | Welcoming words | Christiane Nöstlinger (ITM) |
1:40–2:25pm | The Policy context: Dealing with Superdiversity | Moderated by Christiane Nöstlinger (ITM) |
1:40–1:50pm | From cultural to structural competency: what can evolving approaches offer for superdiversity in European health care? | Karina Kielmann (Department of Public Health, ITM) |
1:50–2pm | Access to (health)care in Antwerp | Daan Sanders & Liesbet Meyvis (City of Antwerp) |
2–2:10pm | Streamlining access to primary health care in Antwerp city | Maaike Van Overloop, Katrien Monten & Zohra Diouani (Eerstelijnzone Antwerpen) |
2:10–2:25pm | Q&A | |
2:25–3:05pm | Health Promotion | Moderated by Milena Belloni (MIGLOBA) |
2:25–2:40pm | Access to Emergency Care, a Case Study of Access to HIV Prevention and PrEP for uninsured Migrants | Christiane Nöstlinger & Ella Van Landeghem (Department of Public Health, ITM) |
2:40–2:55pm | The Health Kiosk: a Community Health Literacy Hub with low-threshold Access to Health Information | Hilde Bastiaens (Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences, University of Antwerp) |
2:55–3:10pm | Q&A | |
3:10–3:30pm | Coffee break | |
3:30–4:30pm | Access Retention and Continuity of Care | Moderated by Imane Bendra (MIGLOBA) |
3:30–3:45pm | Taking a community-oriented approach to improve access to primary healthcare within diverse communities of Antwerp | Emilie Op de Beeck (Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences, University of Antwerp) |
3:45–4pm | Medical Decision-Making Challenges among Migrant Populations in Belgium: A Focus Group Study | Sarah Van de Velde & Amina Yakhlef (Department of Sociology, Faculty of Social Sciences, University of Antwerp) |
4–4:15pm | Theoretical versus effecive access to care for undocumented migrants | Anneleen De Maeyer (Médecins du monde, Antwerp) |
4:15–4:30pm | Q&A | |
4:30–5pm | Reception and networking opportunities |
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