Abstract Background Immigrants and their Norwegian-born children make up approximately
18% of the total population in Norway. While several studies have been conducted on …

A fundamental principal in the Norwegian welfare system is to provide equal access to
healthcare services for all residents, regardless of their ethnicity, language, knowledge …

Background Immigration, particularly when it is involuntary, is known to be an emotional
stressor, regardless of the reason behind it. It is always a challenge to be removed from the …

Background Patients' experiences with health providers and their diagnostic and treatment
expectations are shaped by cultural health beliefs and previous experiences with healthcare …

Background Experiences from nations with population diversity show extensive evidence on
the need for cultural and linguistic competence in health care. In Sweden, despite the …

Coming to a new country involves many challenges. One of them is to approach a new
health care system when you have a child with asthma. The aim of this study was to gain a …

Research on families with disabled children has highlighted how such families experience
frustration in their encounters with health and welfare services. However, less attention has …

Purpose: Although providing culturally sensitive care is an important element of family-
centered rehabilitation very is little known about providers' experiences working with …

Purpose–The purpose of this paper is to examine the barriers and facilitators to health and
social service access and utilization for immigrant parents raising a child with a physical …

Abstract to enable forced migrants to access health and social care that meets their needs.
One solution is to use paraprofessionals–that is, trained individuals who are not …