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Freitas, C., Ingleby, J. & García-Ramirez, M. (2016). Sensitivity to diversity in public and patient involvement policy: A comparison of 40 countries. In Thor Indseth, Ram Gupta (Ed.), Book of abstracts: EUPHA’s 6th European Conference on Migrant and Ethnic Minority Health. (pp. 219-219). Oslo: NAKMI.

C. S. Freitas et al.,  "Sensitivity to diversity in public and patient involvement policy: A comparison of 40 countries", in Book of abstracts: EUPHA’s 6th European Conf. on Migrant and Ethnic Minority Health, Thor Indseth, Ram Gupta, Ed., Oslo, NAKMI, 2016, pp. 219-219

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TI  - Sensitivity to diversity in public and patient involvement policy: A comparison of 40 countries
T2  - Book of abstracts: EUPHA’s 6th European Conference on Migrant and Ethnic Minority Health
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AB  - Background: Developing diversity-responsive healthcare systems calls for inclusive public and patient
involvement policy and practice. Although several studies show that migrants and ethnic minorities
are amongst the groups least involved in health participatory spaces, few efforts have been made to
assess whether policy on public and patient involvement in healthcare governance is sensitive to
diversity. This paper addresses this question.
Methods: Migrant health experts from 40 countries (including the EU28 and EFTA) completed a
questionnaire jointly developed by members of COST Action IS1103, the International Organization
for Migration and the Migrant Integration Policy Index, in 2014-2015. The 24-item questionnaire
included two questions about policy on the involvement of migrants in health policy-making and care
provision, respectively.
Results: Preliminary results show that 60% of the countries surveyed have not formulated policy
enabling migrants’ involvement in health policy-making. In the countries where such policy exists,
migrants participate through one-off consultation exercises, i.e. none of the countries surveyed
promote migrants’ structured cooperation in policy-making (e.g. through advisory boards or regular
reviews of legislation, services or outcomes). Concerning policy on involvement in healthcare
provision, 28% of the countries promote migrants’ participation in information development and
dissemination, 28% in service delivery, 13% in service planning, management and evaluation, 18% in
research and 10% in mediation between services and the community.
Conclusions: Investment in diversity-sensitive policy on public and patient involvement in health care
governance is limited. There is a gap between policy and practice, raising concerns about the
potentially negative consequences of low migrant involvement in the design and implementation of
healthcare policies and programmes seeking to address their needs.
Message: Developing diversity-responsive healthcare systems requires inclusive public and patient
involvement policy Few countries have invested in making their public involvement policy sensitive
to diversity.
ER  -