Objective: Learning to navigate a healthcare system in a new country is a barrier to health
care. Understanding more about the specific navigation challenges immigrants experience …

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

Background Thai massage is a highly gendered and culturally specific occupation. Many
female Thai masseuses migrate to Norway as marriage migrants and as such are entitled to …

Aims: Suboptimal healthcare utilisation and lower satisfaction with the patient–doctor
encounter among immigrants has been documented. Immigrants' lack of familiarity with the …

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 …

Background During the past decades, there has been an increase in the number of
immigrants to European and Scandinavian countries. This has challenged the health-care …

Background Poles constitute the largest group of migrants in Norway. Research confirms a
steady inflow and a minimal outflow of Polish migrants. One of the key aspects of migrants' …

Migrants to Norway disproportionately use emergency medical services while under‐using
primary care, obviating the medical and cost advantages of the Regular General Practitioner …

Aims and objectives To study a group of immigrants' experiences regarding interactions with
primary health care through an interpreter. Background Approximately, 230 million people …

Background: Little is known about how migrants adapt to first-world public health systems. In
Norway, patients are assigned a registered general practitioner (RGP) to provide basic care …