Akademik Veri Yönetim Sistemi
Erasmus Projesi, 2017 - 2020
Turkish migrants are one of the largest groups of migrants in Germany, the Netherlands and Sweden. While they are still younger than the respective majority population in these countries, demographic ageing is also visible in this group (Ooijevaar et al. 2016)(Statistisches Bundesamt 2018). As this population ages, its risk for age-associated diseases increases steadily as well, as does the absolute number of individuals suffering from chronic diseases and of those who are in need of health care services. We predicted that this situation will further increase the challenges facing the health care systems of these countries with respect to the provision of services meeting the needs of its increasingly diverse clients. Therefore, we discussed 5 non-communicable chronic disease groups in our project.
Healthcare professionals should develop new health care services to better fulfill the needs of this population group. Simultaneously, the self-management capacities of elderly chronically ill people need to be strengthened. For this purpose, promoting and improving self-management competencies of chronically ill elderly people in Turkey is a primary objective. In terms of Turkish migrant communities in Germany and other countries, studies show that coping strategies of this population group are often suboptimal. For instance, this becomes evident with respect to motivation to therapy where minority groups, as compared to the majority population, have considerably low rates of adherence (Gosciniak 1997). Turkish migrants also report a variety of barriers to appropriate self-management (Yilmaz-Aslan et al. 2014). In order to improve health care for migrants, knowledge about how this population group utilizes health care services in the country of destination and in the country of origin as well as what expectations they have towards the health care they receive are necessary.