Foreign Healthcare Professionals in Germany: A Questionnaire Survey Evaluating Discrimination Experiences and Equal Treatment at Two Large University Hospitals.

ABSTRACT: To identify facilitators and barriers and derive concrete measures towards better workplace integration of migrants working in the German healthcare sector. Two-centre cross-sectional quantitative online survey of experiences of discrimination among healthcare professionals with a migration history in two large German university hospitals. 251 participants fully completed the questionnaires. Experiences of discrimination and perception of inequality. Fifty-five percent of migrant health workers had had at least some command of German before arriving in Germany. Members of all professional groups surveyed expressed experiences of discrimination related to language, nationality, race/ethnicity, and sex/gender. The proportions of staff with experiences of discrimination by peers differed sign

SUBMITTER: Can E 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9777572 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Nov

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature