Abstracts by keywords: migrants
Since forms of reimbursed medical treatment have become known, there have also been fears that healthcare professionals will recommend care options to their patients that are not or not yet necessary. This fear becomes explosive in terms of health policy with regard to statutory health insurance, in which the costs and consequential costs for treatments that are not reported or not yet reported are financed in solidarity by all of the insured (Breyer/Zweifel/Kifmann, 2013; Breyer/Buchholz, 2021). As early as 2000/2001, the Advisory Council stated in its report that care with non-indicated services or with services without a sufficiently secured net benefit is tantamount to "medical oversupply". On the other hand, services with only a minor benefit that no longer justifies the costs or are provided in an inefficient (i.e. uneconomical) form are classified as “economic oversupply” (Sachverständigenrat 2000/2001). This form of incorrect care is also associated with incorrectly set incentives, which manifest themselves in low-threshold access conditions and can thus lead to the use of inappropriate levels of care (John/Stillfried 2021).
17.05.2022
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.
31.03.2016
In recent weeks and months there has been an increase in public perception and in the media of reports and images of people trying to reach European soil via the Mediterranean. They risk their lives in overcrowded boats hoping for a better life in Europe. In the TV and newspaper reports, capsized boats and drowned people are often reported. If illegal immigrants do reach European territory, they usually end up in overcrowded refugee camps with the hope of escaping to Germany or another European country. The number of asylum seekers in Germany is currently higher than ever before, and new records are being broken every month. For 2015, almost 330,000 initial asylum applications were recorded (as of October 2015), which corresponds to an increase of 1,44% compared to 2014. The numbers appear even more serious compared to previous years: in 2007 there were only 19,000 initial asylum applications in Germany and 41,000 in 2010 (Federal Office for Migration and Refugees 2015a). The overall protection rate, i.e. all positive decisions according to Art. 16a Paragraph 1 GG, according to Section 3 Paragraph 1 AsylVfG, according to Section 4 Paragraph 1 AsylVfG and according to Section 60 Paragraphs 5 and 7 Residence Act, is 39.1% in 2015 is thus higher than in the previous year (31.5%) (Federal Office for Migration and Refugees 2015a). The remaining asylum seekers have few options to be able to live permanently in Germany. One possibility: you decide to live illegally under the residency law.