Language - a vital pill missing in patients' treatment: language barriers during cancer care through the eyes of patients and families.

Purpose: When serious illness occurs, effective communication is essential but challenged by language barriers. This study explores how patients with limited Danish proficiency and their families experience language barriers during cancer care in two Danish public hospitals.

Method: Adopting a phenomenological-hermeneutic approach, the study stresses narratives in understanding participants' lived experiences.

Medical encounters with young unaccompanied refugees: a qualitative study among general practitioners and physicians in migrant health clinics in Norway and Denmark.

Objective: This study examines the experiences of clinical encounters with young unaccompanied refugees in Norway and Denmark among both general practitioners (GPs) and physicians in migrant health clinics (MHC physicians), and it identifies important aspects that should be taken into consideration for improving the quality of healthcare for these patients.

Methodology: Ten individual in-depth interviews with physicians in Norway and Denmark were conducted and analysed using interpretative phenomenology. Axel Honneth's theory of recognition was our theoretical lens.

Communicating without a Shared Language: A Qualitative Study of Language Barriers in Language-Discordant Cancer Communication.

We use language to achieve understanding, and language barriers can have major health consequences for patients with serious illness. While ethnic minorities are more likely to experience social inequalities in health and health care, communicative processes in language-discordant cancer care remain unexplored. This study aimed to investigate communication between patients with cancer and limited Danish proficiency and oncology clinicians, with special emphasis on how linguistic barriers influenced patient involvement and decision-making.

Causes of Patient Nonattendance at Medical Appointments: Protocol for a Mixed Methods Study.

Background: Approximately one-third of patient appointments in Danish health care result in failures, leading to patient risk and sizable resource waste. Existing interventions to alleviate no-shows often target the patients. The underlying reason behind these interventions is a view that attendance or nonattendance is solely the patient's problem.

Perspectives on medication safety from vulnerable older migrants and their relatives-A qualitative explorative study.

Little is known about the combined effect of several risk factors occurring simultaneously, and the perspectives of patients with language barriers or dementia are lacking because these patients are often excluded as research participants. This study aimed at investigating medication safety among older migrants with cognitive disorders who use five or more medications daily from the perspective of older patients and their relatives. Eight semi-structured interviews with patients and relatives were conducted in their homes.

Migration and health: exploring healthy ageing of immigrants in European societies.

Aim: The aim is to identify important factors for immigrants' health and well-being and for their use (or non-use) of primary health care (PHC) and other non-specialised services, and for possible ways that PHC can support healthy ageing of immigrants.

Background: Older persons are an increasing share of the immigrant population in the global north, frequently in contact with various forms of health services, (PHC services most of all. Consequently, PHC services are in a particularly unique position to support healthy ageing of immigrants.

Patientology revisited: Toward tailored care pathways.

Background: Concepts such as patient-centred care, patient empowerment and patient participation have challenged our understanding of what it means to be a patient and what role patients play in care pathways. Consequently, patientology as the medical sociological and anthropological study of patients is currently being reconceptualized through perspectives of health as individualized and privatized capital.

Aims: This article explores the potential of such a patientological perspective to enhance our understanding of and tailor care pathways.

Changing genetic architecture of body mass index from infancy to early adulthood: an individual based pooled analysis of 25 twin cohorts.

Background: Body mass index (BMI) shows strong continuity over childhood and adolescence and high childhood BMI is the strongest predictor of adult obesity. Genetic factors strongly contribute to this continuity, but it is still poorly known how their contribution changes over childhood and adolescence. Thus, we used the genetic twin design to estimate the genetic correlations of BMI from infancy to adulthood and compared them to the genetic correlations of height.

"What it really takes" - A qualitative study of how professionals coproduce healthcare service with immigrant patients.

Background: The concept of coproduction shows great promise for meaningful partnerships between patients and health professionals. This is particularly relevant for immigrant patients who are less inclined to take an active role in consultations. The present study described health professionals' practices and experiences of coproducing healthcare service with immigrant and refugee patients in clinical encounters.

Health care professionals' perspectives on medication safety among older migrants with cognitive impairment exposed to polypharmacy - A qualitative explorative study.

Background: Older migrants with cognitive impairment exposed to polypharmacy constitute a vulnerable group of patients. To our knowledge, evidence on medication safety among this patient group with multiple risk factors is lacking.

Objectives: To explore the perspectives of health care professionals on medication safety among older migrants with cognitive impairment taking five or more medications daily.

Twins in Guinea-Bissau have a 'thin-fat' body composition compared to singletons.

The 'thrifty phenotype' hypothesis proposed that fetal undernutrition increases risk of diabetes in later life. Undernourished low birthweight Indian babies are paradoxically more adipose compared to well-nourished European babies, and are at higher risk of diabetes in later life. Twin pregnancies are an example of growth restrictive environment due to shared maternal nutrition.

Patient-physician agreement among vulnerable ethnic minority patients in Denmark.

INTRODUCTION Medical doctors in Denmark are clinically challenged by ethnic minority patients, resulting in delayed or incorrect treatments. Apart from language barriers, little is known about the nature of the challenges presented by ethnic minority patients. The present study investigated the level of agreement between the patients' main problems, doctors' referral notes and patient-reported problems documented at a hospital-based migrant health outpatient clinic.

"When I feel safe, I dare to open up": immigrant and refugee patients' experiences with coproducing healthcare.

Objective: Interest in the coproduction concept in healthcare is increasing. According to coproduction, services are, unlike goods, always coproduced by a user and a service provider. This study explored how immigrants and refugees perceive the coproduction of their healthcare service in clinical encounters.

Interpreters' experiences of participating in an introduction course in the healthcare sector. An ethnographic field observation study.

Aim: We aimed to explore how interpreters experienced being part of a special designed health introduction course and to obtain their perspectives on the learning process. The overall aim was to improve health care to patients with language barriers.

Design: With a hermeneutic phenomenological approach, we used participant observations as a method for collecting data.

Is there a need of health assessments for resettling refugees? A cross-sectional study of 1431 refugees who arrived in Denmark between 2014 and 2018.

Background: Refugees have increased health risks due to factors related to their country of origin, the migration itself and the receiving country. Based on systematic general health assessments of newly arrived refugees, we aimed to study the characteristics with regard to background, migration and health needs.

Methods: All refugees (children/adolescents and adults) arriving in Aarhus, Denmark from 1 January 2014 to 1 November 2018 were offered a general health assessment by a doctor including: medical history, a physical examination and blood samples.

Under what circumstances can immigrant patients and healthcare professionals co-produce health? - an interpretive scoping review.

Purpose: Immigrant patients run a risk of receiving lower quality of care. Co-production, as the concept of how to collaboratively create valuable healthcare service for the patient, offers a new perspective that might help. The scoping review aimed at identifying and analysing factors facilitating co-production between immigrant patients and healthcare professionals.

Diabetes in urban Guinea-Bissau; patient characteristics, mortality and prevalence of undiagnosed dysglycemia.

Background: The burden of diabetes mellitus in Sub-Saharan Africa is growing rapidly, and yet the prevalence and patient characteristics are still largely unknown.

Objectives: We analyzed clinical and demographic characteristics of Type 2 diabetes (T2DM) patients attending a diabetes clinic in Guinea-Bissau from February 2008 to April 2014, and estimated the prevalence and risk factors of unknown-impaired fasting plasma glucose (FPG) and diabetes, as well as excess mortality associated with T2DM.

Methods: We characterized T2DM patients attending the national diabetes clinic in Bissau.

[Narrative medicine as a new, interdisciplinary field].

This article presents narrative medicine as a new field of medical humanities. Narrative medicine has become influential over the world as well as in Denmark in recent years. Narrative medicine aims to counter the often reductionist way patients are perceived and treated in biomedicine and argues for the importance of seeing and hearing patients in the clinical practice as whole, complex persons.

Are refugees arriving in Denmark an under-immunised group for measles? A cross-sectional serology study.

Background: In 2018, Europe faced the highest number of Measles cases in a decade. In Denmark, the childhood vaccination programme has a coverage of approximately 90%. To eliminate the disease, vaccine coverage needs to be above the herd immunity threshold of 95%.

'I had to stifle my feelings' - Bilingual health professionals translating for family members in a healthcare setting. A qualitative study.

Background: As an alternative to a professional interpreter, children or relatives often act as so-called 'language brokers' in the healthcare sector. Litterature have demonstrated that the cultural context is significant for the potential outcome for child language brokers. For individuals from a collectivistic family pattern, it becomes natural and is often regarded as respectful, to assist older relatives day and night.

Perceived barriers to utilization of antenatal care services in northern Uganda: A qualitative study.

Objective: Antenatal care (ANC) utilization remains a challenge in efforts to reduce maternal mortality and improve maternal health in Uganda. This study aimed to identify perceived barriers to utilization of ANC services in a rural post-conflict area in northern Uganda.

Methods: A qualitative study using in-depth interviews and focus group discussions of seventeen participants (pregnant women, health workers and a traditional birth attendant).