Understanding transnational healthcare use in immigrant communities from a cultural systems perspective: a qualitative study of Dutch residents with a Turkish background.

ABSTRACT:

Objectives

Transnational utilisation of healthcare by people with an immigrant background carries risks, including medicalisation and adverse iatrogenic outcomes. We investigated the drivers behind such transnational healthcare use from a cultural perspective on health systems.

Design

Qualitative interview study (2018).

Setting

Two primary care practices in Amsterdam, the Netherlands.

Participants

Thirteen Dutch patients of Turkish background, who had obtained healthcare in Turkey, and who in general visited the primary care practice more than once a month.

Results

In the respondents' stories, we observed how: (1) cross-border healthcare use was encouraged by cultural mismatches between expected and provided services and by differing explanatory models o

SUBMITTER: Sekercan A 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8487186 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Sep

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature