FAQ

Access to Health Care for English Division Students of the Medical University of Warsaw

Publication date: 07.08.2020

Migration Studies – Review of Polish Diaspora, 2020 (XLVI), Vol. 2 (176), pp. 107-125

https://doi.org/10.4467/25444972SMPP.20.016.12332

Authors

,
Maria Strzemieczna
Medical University of Warsaw
ul. Żwirki i Wigury 61, 02-091 Warszawa, Poland
https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3977-9974 Orcid
Contact with author
All publications →
,
Mikołaj Pawlak
University of Warsaw, Krakowskie Przedmieście 30, 00-927 Warszawa, Poland
https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1727-4342 Orcid
All publications →
,
Jacek Imiela
Medical University of Warsaw
ul. Żwirki i Wigury 61, 02-091 Warszawa, Poland
https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7966-3947 Orcid
All publications →
Magdalena Lorkowska
Medical University of Warsaw
ul. Żwirki i Wigury 61, 02-091 Warszawa, Poland
https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4305-5816 Orcid
All publications →

Download full text

Titles

Access to Health Care for English Division Students of the Medical University of Warsaw

Abstract

Foreigners face certain barriers in accessing medical care, though international medical students are in many aspects privileged in this field. The aim of this study is to explore whether these students are facing problems in accessing healthcare. An original survey questionnaire was prepared and distributed online and on paper among students. In total 138 questionnaires were filled out. The results were analyzed using statistical methods. The main barriers faced by students are the lack of knowledge about the healthcare system and language problems. The study shows there is a need to start working on institutional solutions to provide information about access to healthcare and to overcome language barriers in healthcare institutions. 

References

Download references

Bell, D., Holliday, R., Ormond, M., & Mainil, T. (2015). Transnational healthcare, cross-border perspectives. Social Science & Medicine (1982)124, 284–289.

Betancourt, J. R., Green, A. R., Carrillo, J. E., & Owusu Ananeh-Firempong, I. I. (2016). Defining cultural competence: A practical framework for addressing racial/ethnic disparities in health and health care. Public Health Reports.

Burgess, D.J., Nelson, D.B., Gravely, A.A., et al. (2014). Racial differences in prescription of opioid analgesics for chronic noncancer pain in a national sample of veterans. The Journal of Pain. 15(4):447–455.

Constant, A. F., García-Muñoz, T., Neuman, S., & Neuman, T. (2018). A ‘healthy immigrant effect’ or a ‘sick immigrant effect’? Selection and policies matter. The European Journal of Health Economics: HEPAC: Health Economics in Prevention and Care19(1), 103–121.

Czapka, E. A., & Sagbakken, M. (2016). ‘Where to find those doctors?’ A qualitative study on barriers and facilitators in access to and utilization of health care services by Polish migrants in Norway. BMC Health Services Research16, 460.

Dąbrowska, K. (2008). W jakim kierunku zmierzają relacje pomiędzy lekarzem a pacjentem w Polsce? Pediatria i Medycyna Rodzinna4(4), 278–281.

Eissler, L. A., & Casken, J. (2013). Seeking Health Care Through International Medical Tourism. Journal of Nursing Scholarship : An Official Publication of Sigma Theta Tau International Honor Society of Nursing / Sigma Theta Tau45.

European Consortium for Emergency Contraception. (2018). Retrieved 21 June 2018, from ECEC website: http://www.ec-ec.org/emergency-contraception-in-europe/country-by-country-infor­mation-2/norway/ 

Głodowska, K., & Bendowska, A. (2016). Transkulturowa opieka medyczna niezbędnym element­em w programach nauczania na uniwersytetach medycznych w Polsce. In Pacjent ‘inny’ wyzwaniem opieki medycznej (pp. 791–798). Poznań: Wydawnictwo Naukowe Silva rerum.

Główny Urząd Statystyczny. (2017). Szkoły wyższe i ich finanse w 2016 r. Warszawa.

Hnilicová, H., & Dobiásová, K. (2011). Migrants’ Health and Access to Healthcare in the Czech Republic. Central European Journal of Public Health19(3), 134.

Hsieh, E., & Kramer, E. M. (2012). Medical interpreters as tools: Dangers and challenges in the utilitarian approach to interpreters’ roles and functions. Patient Education and Counseling89(1), 158–162.

Iwanowicz, E. (2009). „Health literacy” jako jedno ze współczesnych wyzwań zdrowia publicz­nego. Medycyna Pracy60(5), 427–437.

Jabłecka, B. (2012). Strukturalne i kulturowe bariery w dostępie imigrantów do ochrony zdrowia. Instytut Spraw Publicznych.

Jaroszewska, E. (2013). Migracje a zdrowie. Uwarunkowania kondycji zdrowotnej migrantów oraz bariery w korzystaniu z opieki medycznej. Warszawa: Oficyna Wydawnicza Aspra-JR.

Kangas, B. (2010). Traveling for Medical Care in a Global World. Medical Anthropology29(4), 344–362.

Kickbusch, I., Pelikan, J. M., Apfel, F., Tsouros, A. D., & World Health Organization (Eds.). (2013). Health literacy: The solid facts. Copenhagen: World Health Organization Regional Office for Europe.

Kramer, A.-M. (2005). Gender, nation and the abortion debate in the Polish media. In Nation and Gender in Contemporary Europe (pp. 130–148). Manchester: Manchester University Press.

Ku, L., & Flores, G. (2005). Pay now or pay later: Providing interpreter services in health care. Health Affairs24(2), 435–444.

Li, S., Gerwing, J., Krystallidou, D., Rowlands, A., Cox, A., & Pype, P. (2017). Interaction–A missing piece of the jigsaw in interpreter-mediated medical consultation models. Patient Education and Counseling100(9), 1769–1771.

Lindholm, M., Hargraves, J. L., Ferguson, W. J., & Reed, G. (2012). Professional language inter­pretation and inpatient length of stay and readmission rates. Journal of General Internal Medicine27(10), 1294–1299.

MacKian, S. (2003). A review of health seeking behaviour: Problems and prospects. Health Systems Development Programme.

Main, I. (2014). Medical Travels of Polish Female Migrants in Europe. Sociologicky Casopis50(6), 897–918.

Majda, A., & Zalewska-Puchała, J. (2011). Wrażliwość międzykulturowa w opiece pielęgniarskiej. Problemy Pielęgniarstwa19(2), 253–258.

Markides, K. S., & Eschbach, K. (2011). Hispanic paradox in adult mortality in the United States. In International handbook of adult mortality (pp. 227–240). Springer.

Moullan, Y., & Jusot, F. (2014). Why is the ‘healthy immigrant effect’ different between European countries? European Journal of Public Health24 Suppl 1, 80–86.

Nelson, A. (2002). Unequal treatment: Confronting racial and ethnic disparities in health care. Journal of the National Medical Association94(8), pp. 666–668.

Osipovič, D. (2013). ‘If I get ill, It’s onto the plane, and off to Poland.’use of health care services by Polish migrants in London. Central and Eastern European Migration Review2(2), 98–114.

Priebe, S., Sandhu, S., Dias, S., Gaddini, A., Greacen, T., Ioannidis, E., Bogic, M. (2011). Good practice in health care for migrants: Views and experiences of care professionals in 16 Eu­ropean countries. BMC Public Health11(1), https://bmcpublichealth.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/1471-2458-11-187#citeas.

Purnell, L. D. (2009). Guide to culturally competent health care (2nd ed). Philadelphia: F.A. Davis Co.

Razum, O., & Twardella, D. (2002). Time travel with Oliver Twist – Towards an explanation for a paradoxically low mortality among recent immigrants. Tropical Medicine & International Health7(1), 4–10.

Razum, O., Zeeb, H., Akgün, H. S., & Yilmaz, S. (1998). Low overall mortality of Turkish residents in Germany persists and extends into a second generation: Merely a healthy migrant effect? Tropical Medicine & International Health3(4), 297–303.

Rechel, B., Mladovsky, P., Ingleby, D., Mackenbach, J. P., & McKee, M. (2013). Migration and health in an increasingly diverse Europe. The Lancet381(9873), 1235–1245.

Scheppers, E., van Dongen, E., Dekker, J., Geertzen, J., & Dekker, J. (2006). Potential barriers to the use of health services among ethnic minorities: A review. Family Practice23(3), 325–348.

Siwińska, B. (2017). Study in Poland. Studenci zagraniczni w Polsce 2017. Fundacja Edukacyjna „Perspektywy”.

Squires, A. (2018). Strategies for overcoming language barriers in healthcare. Nursing Manage­ment49(4), 20–27.

Stan, S. (2015). Transnational healthcare practices of Romanian migrants in Ireland: Inequalities of access and the privatisation of healthcare services in Europe. Social Science & Medicine124, 346–355.

Staton, L. J., Panda, M., Chen, I., Genao, I., Kurz, J., Pasanen, M., Cykert, S. (2007). When race matters: Disagreement in pain perception between patients and their physicians in primary care. Journal of the National Medical Association99(5), 532–538.

Szelawa, D. (2017). Prawa reprodukcyjne w Europie i w Polsce: Zakaz, kompromis czy wybór? Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung, Przedstawicielstwo w Polsce wspólnie z Fundacją Międzynarodowe Centrum Badań i Analiz (ICRA).

Thompson, A. E., Anisimowicz, Y., Miedema, B., Hogg, W., Wodchis, W. P., & Aubrey-Bassler, K. (2016). The influence of gender and other patient characteristics on health care-seeking behaviour: A QUALICOPC study. BMC Family Practice17(1), 38.

Whittaker, A., Manderson, L., & Cartwright, E. (2010). Patients without borders: Understanding medical travel. Medical Anthropology29(4), 336–343.

Włodarczyk, D., Łazarewicz, M., & Winiarska, A. (2015). Medical University of Warsaw Interna­tional Students’ Satisfaction, Needs and Well-Being– SUPP Study 2015. Warsaw.

Information

Information: Migration Studies – Review of Polish Diaspora, 2020 (XLVI), Vol. 2 (176), pp. 107-125

Article type: Original article

Authors

https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3977-9974

Maria Strzemieczna
Medical University of Warsaw
ul. Żwirki i Wigury 61, 02-091 Warszawa, Poland
https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3977-9974 Orcid
Contact with author
All publications →

Medical University of Warsaw
ul. Żwirki i Wigury 61, 02-091 Warszawa, Poland

https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1727-4342

Mikołaj Pawlak
University of Warsaw, Krakowskie Przedmieście 30, 00-927 Warszawa, Poland
https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1727-4342 Orcid
All publications →

University of Warsaw, Krakowskie Przedmieście 30, 00-927 Warszawa, Poland

https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7966-3947

Jacek Imiela
Medical University of Warsaw
ul. Żwirki i Wigury 61, 02-091 Warszawa, Poland
https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7966-3947 Orcid
All publications →

Medical University of Warsaw
ul. Żwirki i Wigury 61, 02-091 Warszawa, Poland

https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4305-5816

Magdalena Lorkowska
Medical University of Warsaw
ul. Żwirki i Wigury 61, 02-091 Warszawa, Poland
https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4305-5816 Orcid
All publications →

Medical University of Warsaw
ul. Żwirki i Wigury 61, 02-091 Warszawa, Poland

Published at: 07.08.2020

Article status: Open

Licence: CC BY-NC-ND  licence icon

Article financing:

The article is part of a research project financed by the Ministry of Science and Higher Education.

Percentage share of authors:

Maria Strzemieczna (Author) - 25%
Mikołaj Pawlak (Author) - 25%
Jacek Imiela (Author) - 25%
Magdalena Lorkowska (Author) - 25%

Article corrections:

-

Publication languages:

English

Access to Health Care for English Division Students of the Medical University of Warsaw

cytuj

pobierz pliki

RIS BIB ENDNOTE