A Qualitative Study about Cervical Cancer Screening among Latinas Living in a Rural Area of California: Lessons for Health Educators

A metasynthesis of qualitative studies regarding opinions and perceptions about barriers and determinants of health services’ accessibility in economic migrants

“…With respect to the organisational factors, the characteristics of health care services, in terms of availability of human resources [57], interpreters and cultural mediators [47,48,62], opening hours and availability of medical and dental services [40], the lack of information about different programmes and services [51,63,66], and the perceived quality of the services provided [42,54] were all determinants of use health services amongst migrants taking part in the various studies analysed. In addition, geographical barriers and transport difficulties due to the location of health services with regard to their places of residence and work were also identified [47,48,57,64,66].…”

“…Further, many of the studies also identified language barriers [42,45,48-53,56,57,61,64] that hinder communication between service provider and patient, which led to feelings of insecurity among migrants [66]. …”

“…Finally, discrimination in the health services from being an migrant, or for one’s sexual condition [43], by institutions themselves and resulting from health care workers’ attitudes [42,48,52-55,60,62-64], are a determinant that influences health practices and the utilisation of health services, and lead to feelings of mistrust by migrants towards organisations and health professionals [40,52]. …”

Qualitative Study on University Town’s Health Education among Undergraduate in Chongqing University Town, China

“…College students, in the latter period of their youth, are encountering heavy study tasks and additional work pressure, and nutritional disorders among college students can disturb their overall physiological and health status [16]. Moreover, previous studies had found many students (especially female) were in pursuit of figure satisfaction leading nutritional disorder [17][18][19].…”

Women's Knowledge, Beliefs and Behaviors About Cervical Cancer and Pap Smear Test

“…11 Yine yurt dışında yapılan niteliksel bir çalış-mada ise uzun bir süre bekleme, bakımın devamlılığında eksiklik, dil farklılıkları ve sağlık sistemlerine nasıl ulaşılacağına ilişkin bilgi eksikliği Pap Smear yaptırmadaki engeller olarak bildirilmiştir. 12 Yapılan diğer çalışmalarda testi yaptırmadaki engeller; doktorun kadın olmaması, risk faktörlerindeki bilgi eksikliği, test esnasında ağrı hissetme, utangaçlık, korku, çekingenlik, testi duymama ve neden yapıldığını bilmeme, gerek duymama, semptomlarından şikâyetçi olmama, zaman kısıtlılığı ve genç olma olarak bildirilmiş-tir. 7,13 Pap Smear testini yaptırmada bilgili olmak önemli bir faktördür.…”