2012
Are there policies and/or good practices accomodating culture/ traditions' respect in health care
- Austria
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Bulgaria
No.
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Cyprus
No
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Denmark
Yes.
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Finland
Yes.
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France
Yes
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Germany
Yes.
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Greece
Only partially.
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Hungary
Yes.
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Ireland
The main positive initiative that exists in relation to diversity and health care is the HSE (Health Sevice Executive) Intercultural Health Strategy.
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Italy
Yes
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Poland
No.
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Portugal
The Plano para a Integração de Imigrantes [Plan for Immigrant Integration] adopts several measures concerning the health area of intervention, including the promotion of immigrants access to health, improving health services, training schemes on interculturality for National Health Service (SNS) professionals and integrating immigrant professionals with degrees in medicine, among other policies and good practices.
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Romania
Yes. Roma health mediator. The right of the patient to be informed and communicate in his/her mother tongue or in a language he/she knows or through other means of communication, if the patient does not speak Romanian.
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Slovenia
A practice that could be marked as good practice is the pro bono health service for people without health insurance. However, this pro bono centre does not accommodate different cultures or traditions in the field of health care but the lack of health insurance which migrants as well as Roma minority often face.
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Spain
No data.
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Sweden
Yes, but there is a lack of research into migrants' health and their experience with the Swedish medical system in relation to issues of accomodating culture/traditions and respect in health care.