[Health of People with Selected Citizenships in Germany: Prevalence of Non-communicable Diseases and Associated Social As Well As Migration-related Factors]

Overview

Journal Bundesgesundheitsblatt Gesundheitsforschung Gesundheitsschutz

Publisher Springer

Specialty Public Health

Date 2023 Sep 20

PMID 37728772

Authors

Susanne Bartig

Marleen Bug

Carmen Koschollek

Katja Kajikhina

Miriam Blume

Manuel Siegert

Christin Heidemann

Lena Walther

Hannelore Neuhauser

Claudia Hovener

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Abstract

Background: Health chances and risks of people with a history of migration vary according to a wide range of factors. This paper aims to describe the health of people with selected citizenships on the basis of four non-communicable diseases (chronic disease or long-term health problem in general, coronary heart disease, diabetes mellitus, depression) and to identify associated social and migration-related factors.

Methods: Analyses are based on data from the multilingual and multimodal interview survey "German Health Update: Fokus" (GEDA Fokus), which was conducted among 18- to 79-year-olds with Croatian, Italian, Polish, Syrian, or Turkish citizenship living in Germany (November 2021 to May 2022). Poisson regressions were used to calculate prevalence ratios and 95% confidence intervals to examine the association between the individual indicators and social as well as migration-related characteristics.

Results: In particular, a low sense of belonging to the society in Germany and self-reported experiences of discrimination in everyday life are associated with higher prevalence of a chronic disease or long-term health problem and - according to self-reported medical diagnoses - with depression and partly with coronary heart disease and diabetes.

Discussion: Given the importance of subjective sense of belonging to the society in Germany and self-reported experience of discrimination for the health outcomes studied, the results point to health inequalities among people with selected citizenships that may indicate mechanisms of social exclusion.

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