Abstract
Migrants have lower health literacy (HL) levels compared with native-born. To reduce health inequalities, this research intends to achieve recommendations for a HL strategy for migrants. Additionally, it identifies indirect measures for HL. A literature review acquired existing interventions improving migrants’ HL, variables to measure HL indirectly and studies measuring these variables. Cancer screening and maternal mortality indirectly measure migrants’ HL deficiencies. Workshops, language courses, multicultural webpages, health educators, and migrant-friendly hospitals improve migrants’ HL. EU countries should develop comprehensive HL strategies to reduce health inequalities between migrants and native-born. However, there is a lack of evidence-based interventions.
Highlights
The European Union has a long history of migration
A total of 33.5 million non-European Union (EU) born migrants were living in the EU on 1 January 2014, while 17.9 million migrants were residing in a different EU Member State than they were born [2]
The high influx caused a “crisis” among the European countries, it created a division in the European Union how best to deal with these migrating people [3]
Summary
The European Union has a long history of migration. In the first half of the twentieth century European citizens mainly emigrated to other countries in the world. The high influx caused a “crisis” among the European countries, it created a division in the European Union how best to deal with these migrating people [3]. It are mainly the non-EU born migrants who are putting pressure on the system, as migrants from the EU countries do not have to apply for asylum or a visa: Article 45 of the Treaty on the Functioning of the European Union allows free movement of EU citizens between the countries so people can travel across the borders to live and work freely
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