Health Promotion and Refugees
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Health Promotion and Refugees
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Table of ContentsINTRODUCTION...........................................................................................................................1MAIN BODY...................................................................................................................................1CONCLUSION................................................................................................................................7REFERENCES................................................................................................................................8
INTRODUCTIONHealth promotion has important role to increase awareness of migrants and refugeesabout their rights, available healthcare resources and support. Refugees and migrants aredisplaced individual who forced to cross the national boundaries and can not return home safely.Health promotion also play a major role to raise about health promotion and prevent injury anddisease (Berthold & et. al., 2014). These programs are made for the refugees and migrants whodo not get the proper treatment. This assignment will focus on refugees of Syria andprogrammes for their health promotion and health risk factor like mental health issues.Understanding of health promotion such as aims, techniques, strengths and limitations. MAIN BODYHealth promotion is “the process of changing individuals to increase control over andimprove, their health”. There are different approaches and techniques to promote health such asanalyse process of the enabling groups, organizations, individuals and communities toestablish capacity for the health promoting actions to reduce health inequalities and improvehealth. Plan efficient, effective ethical and cultural sensitive health promotion action forparticular stakeholders. Collaboratively working enhances sustainability and impact of healthpromotion action (Semenza & et. al., 2016). Communicate with health promotion actions usingsuitable technologies and techniques for diverse audiences. Aim of health promotion completemental, social and physical well- being, group or a person should able to identify and realizeaspirations to change and satisfy needs with environment. Strengths of health promotion such as media campaigns can reach to large populationwithin a short period there for it is effective and efficient. Health promotion can implemented toalter health behaviour by enforcing and promoting positive health behaviours. And limitationsinclude media campaigns as form of health promotion needed access to the resources that notevery individual has and is not cost effective (Bradby & et. al., 2015). Despite some of targetpopulation viewing media campaigns does not needed mean that behaviour will improvedbecause a person knowledge has, if the campaigns have been repeatedly viewed and it is toostressful then it can result in switching off from message or can reduce the importance. Somelegislation can considered to denying people of human rights like freedom of movement examplewith smoking.1
More than 1.4 million individuals have applied to get asylum in Germany and majoritywere Syrian. Within an year, Syrians have become third largest group who which was living inGermany. More than 700000 Syrian refugees are dispersed among 82 million inhabitants ofGermany. German government has established series of systems to combine new refugeepopulation and momentous efforts are underway by the all parties involved such as state, federal,city, local government and civil society. Several non profit organization and volunteer havestarted to help integration process. On the top of logistical and bureaucratic obstacles, barriers ofsocietal integration facing Syrian community are clear. For certain Germans integration meansassimilation but several Syrians are hoping to keep their traditions from home. Merkel'swelcoming policies on the immigration and stricter policies on the family reunification whichinstituted in 2016 made it difficult for certain refugees to integrate so in early Augustgovernment announced that it would restart process to bring in up to the 1,000 direct relativesevery month.German response therefore far to refugees crisis stands in a sharp contrast to currentpolicies and rhetoric of administration. It offers peek into experiences of some of individuals andinstitutions which are involved in early stages of the refugees integration in Germany, especiallyregarding employment, and other aspect.In context of Germany, they have recorded highest rates of refugees since early 1990sand the access of medical care is known as legally regulated fundamental element of aid forrefugees. It includes the fact that several problems faced by Syrian refugees in Germany due tolanguage barriers and legal regulations which impacts on lives of these refugees. Meanwhile,Syrian refugees face various problems due to surviving in another country with different culturewhich create issues to get access to desired facilities of daily living. However, it has beenanalysed that government of Germany provides special outpatients services for refugees inresponse to massively increase in healthcare needs in context of number of cities. For example,outpatients clinic has been established at geographical area named Cologne in order to fulfillargest emergency accommodation centre for providing required facilities to refugees which issupported by Cologne municipality and operated through German and physicians fromAssociation of Statutory Health Insurance Physicians. There are several medical facilities whichare provided to refugees in Germany such as acute respiratory problem, loco-motor system andsymptoms followed by chronic physical disease to ensure their well-being.2
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