Community participation of cross-border migrants for primary health care in Thailand

Community participation of cross-border migrants for primary health care in Thailand.

This is the first report of the large-scale utilization of migrants as health volunteers in a migrant primary-healthcare program. The program recruited migrants who volunteered to serve their communities. This study explores the identities of these volunteers, their relationship with program management, and their attitudes. The study also investigates the impact of the volunteers, from the migr...

Financial Burden of Border Hospital in Caring for Cross-Border Patients: A Short Note From Thailand

Reflections on Health Tourism and Cross-Border Health Care

Community participation in health care.

Letters Community participation in health care Editor – I agree, but only in part, with the views expressed in the editorial " Community participation in health impact assessment: intuitively appealing but practically difficult " (1). The authors have considered many important issues relating to community participation, such as democratic processes, community empowerment, and top-down professio...

A Qualitative study of language barriers between South African health care providers and cross-border migrants

BACKGROUND Communication with health care providers represents an essential part of access to health care for the over 230 million cross-border migrants around the world. In this article, we explore the complexity of health communication from the perspective of cross-border migrants seeking antenatal care in Cape Town, South Africa in order to highlight the importance of high quality medical in...