What is it about?
The paper looks at how cultural orientation, medical mistrust, perceived discrimination and blood donation knowledge and impact on refuges intentions to donate blood. This helps in understanding how refugees integrate into host societies, which can be difficult especially as home country experiences and services may operate differently.
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Why is it important?
Understanding the impact of these factors on refugees is important, as the number of refugees are increasing globally. Participating in health services is essential for social inclusion of refugees and has been found to increase settlement outcomes more generally.
Perspectives
The publication adds to our understanding of how refugees' past experiences in home countries and experiences in host countries bot impact on how they engage in health services. Thus policy makers are not just dealing with current expectations and practices, but need to address negative home country experiences.
Michael Polonsky
Deakin University
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This page is a summary of: Factors Leading to Health Care Exclusion Among African Refugees in Australia: The Case of Blood Donation, Journal of Marketing & Public Policy, November 2018, SAGE Publications,
DOI: 10.1177/0748676618813115.
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