Migration, diversity and health

Knowledge

On completion of the course, the students shall demonstrate knowledge on:

• values in migrant health including equity in health, social vulnerability and health as a human right.
•  terminology, categorizations and central concepts
• methodological and ethical issues of carrying out research among migrants
• health determinants in migrant populations
• barriers to and strategies for ensuring access to health in migrant populations
• critically understand and reflect upon the interrelationship between access to health and socio-economic, cultural, physical and psychological factors of importance in migrant situations
• diverstiy competences

Skills

On completion of the course, the students shall demonstrate the ability to:

• discuss terminology, categorizations and central concepts related to discrimination, race, ethnicity and migration.
• identify different relevant methods of analysing problems related to migration and health both in relation to qualitative and quantitative methods.
• apply analytical approaches to migration and health included in the course as learned through case work.

• use their analytical skills on relevant international articles and reports on migrants’ health and health care.

Competences

On completion of the course, the students shall demonstrate the ability to:

• describe and discuss the concepts of race, ethnicity, discrimination and migration.
• define the diversity of migrant groups which the field focuses on and where demographic sources are found.
• describe similarities in health and access to health between different categories of migrant populations.
• describe the concepts of equity in health and health and human rights in relation to migrants’ health.
• describe disease patterns, causal mechanisms and risk factors related to migrants’ health.
• describe formal and informal barriers to migrants’ health care and relevant health policies.
• Understand diversity competences in health care.