Articles on intercultural therapy and
health care
Leman, J. (1997) ‘Health care and immigrants in Belgium’, Studi Emigrazione/Etudes Migrations , 34, 125 : 41-50.
Abstract: Research based on the existing scientific literature into health care provision and policy relating to Mediterranean immigrants in Belgium gives a survey of the medical problems of Moroccan, Turkish and to a lesser extent Southern Italian immigrants of the guest worker type. The paper examines the curative and preventive response and what the anomalies are. The problems surrounding the lack of compliance among patients, the need for more adequate intercultural communication, the necessity of up-to-date research of a qualitative and quantitative nature which is unfortunately all too often lacking and the complete lack of prevention programmes relating to mortality rates, especially among immigrant children, are the most striking gaps. Belgium is undoubtedly not alone in the Western European Union on a number of these points.
Gailly, A., Hermans, P. and J. Leman (1985). ‘Du langage corporel à la plainte psychosomatique: une etude à travers quelques cultures méditerranéennes’, Questions de Logopédie, Mons, 71-99.