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 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: We aimed to explore the background of refugees emigrating to Sweden and
their situation in the new country with special focus on their contacts with the Swedish …

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: Due to the enormous migration as the result of war and disasters during the
last decades, health systems in Europe are faced with various cultural traditions and both …

Growing migration in European countries has simultaneously increased cultural diversity in
health care. Migrants' equal access to health care systems and migrant friendly health care …

Background: Since the 1970s, Norway has experienced a significant increase in population
diversity. In 2001, a patient-list system, also referred to as the General Practitioner (GP) …

Background The UK has experienced significant immigration from Eastern Europe following
European Union (EU) expansion in 2004, which raises the importance of equity and equality …

Aim: The aim of the study was to investigate how immigrants from Bosnia and Herzegovina,
Somalia and Kosovo experienced contact with Swedish health-care regarding meeting with …