Abstracts by keywords: health care service
Immigration to Germany, which has increased significantly since 2014 and increased sharply since 2015, also poses new challenges for the health care system in particular when it comes to ensuring health care. The previously insufficiently researched problem of overcoming language barriers, cultural differences and logistical challenges to ensure optimal access to healthcare, but also to ensure that migrants receive healthcare that meets their needs, should be examined in this study – the first “Berlin Migrant Study” – by GeWINO be discussed and presented. The North East Health Sciences Institute (GeWINO) of the AOK Nordost has been monitoring the development of health care for people with a migrant background for some time now, also within the framework of the “International Health Insurance” focus, and, together with regional partners, is looking for quick and unbureaucratic solutions to improve the health care of migrants in Berlin, Brandenburg and Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania. The aim of the first “Berlin Migrant Study” was to provide data and facts on the current development of health care for migrants in Berlin in order to support the planning and development of regional structures to overcome the challenges posed by migration in the German health care system and to address these through innovative measures AOK Nordost to be added. The first “Berlin Migrant Study” was carried out by the North East Health Sciences Institute (GeWINO) of the AOK Nordost in cooperation with the bbw Bildungswerk der Wirtschaft in Berlin und Brandenburg eV and the bbw Hochschule Berlin in 2015. The second “Berlin Migrant Study”, which is being carried out in the same constellation, has already been started and GeWINO will continue to devote itself to the topic in the future.