Refugee doctors in Britain: a wasted resource

Berlin, Anita; Gill, Paramjit; Eversley, John

doi:10.1136/bmj.315.7103.264

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“…A survey of Somali refugees in Cardiff revealed a large number of children with important health problems whose life experience included violence, bereavement, separation, disruption, homelessness, and poverty 26. The authors believed that distress was exacerbated by the inappropriate responses of the statutory services to the arrival of these children—responses based on glib assumptions that they were developmentally intact and would slot easily into Western systems of education, health care, and welfare.…”

Section: Specific Interventionsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Children and the inverse care law

Webb

1998

BMJ

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It is over 25 years since Tudor Hart described the inverse care law. This states that "the availability of good medical care tends to vary inversely with the need for it in the population served."1 Although Tudor Hart did not provide hard evidence to support his hypothesis, others have since. West and Lowe showed that for children's services need and provision were badly matched.2 Given the lack of strategic planning centred on children and the low priority given to the commissioning of children's services, this situation is unlikely to have changed. 3The inverse care law also operates in terms of access to services. Those with least need of health care use the health services more, and more effectively, than do those with greatest need.4 This applies to preventive interventions as well as treatments. Health promotion based on providing information in standard formats to the population as a whole has had the greatest impact on people who are socially and economically advantaged.

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Section: Specific Interventionsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Children and the inverse care law

Webb

1998

BMJ

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“…These barriers tend to increase social exclusion among refugees, given that employment in itself is considered one of the most successful strategies for integrating refugees into a host community (Valtonen 1999, Colic‐Peisker 2003). Consequently, without adequate support, their skills may be wasted (Berlin & Eversley 1997, Ong et al. 2004).…”

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%

Exploring the potential of refugees and asylum seekers for social care work in England: a qualitative study

Hussein

Manthorpe

Stevens

2011

Health &Amp; Social Care in the Community

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Literature highlights the potential for refugees to contribute to the labour force of receiving countries. Such a contribution may be welcomed in sectors, such as social care, where demand for labour is increasing and high vacancy rates exist. This article reports on empirical data examining the potential of refugee communities to work in social care in England. The analysis is based primarily on 20 interviews with refugees and asylum seekers and five representatives of refugee support groups, conducted in 2008-2009. The findings of this sub-study are set within results obtained from other interviews as part of a multi-methods study examining the contribution of migrants to the English care sector. In-depth interviews were analysed thematically, guided by a theoretical framework linking employment, migration and the nature of care work. The findings highlight a general willingness of refugee participants to join the care workforce. Individual and structural barriers to increased employability were identified, as well as possible strategies to overcome them. Although the findings and discussions presented are based on data collected in England and are specific to the care sector, most are more generalisable and may inform strategies aiming at maximising refugees' employability in other sectors and in other developed states.

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“…Among the refugees that seek to build a new life in the UK, many are medically qualified. As part of modernising the National Health Service (NHS) we need to develop the workforce to meet the needs of the communities it serves, and refugee doctors have the potential to contribute to the NHS using their experience and skills to benefit patients 1,2 …”

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confidence: 99%