Health professionals' access to diversity training across Denmark.

IF 1 4区医学 Q3 MEDICINE, GENERAL & INTERNAL

Danish medical journal Pub Date : 2025-03-10 DOI:10.61409/A07240472

Janne Sorensen, Hejdi Abdelhamid, Julia Kadin Funge

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Abstract

Introduction: Health disparities exist between migrants and ethnic minorities (MEM) and the majority population in Europe and Denmark. As diversity increases, delivering healthcare appropriate to MEM is essential. Training health professionals (HP) in diversity competence (DC) prepares them for a diverse society and helps address health disparities among MEM. The study aims to investigate which educational activities exist regarding DC training across sectors in Denmark.

Methods: An email survey was sent to all health education programmes, municipalities, regions (including hospitals), healthcare worker unions, medical societies/associations, the Ministry of Health and the Danish Health Authority. Among the 295 institutions contacted, 148 responded. Ten surveys were excluded, yielding a dataset of 138 surveys and a response rate of 46.8%. Data were collected between 21 February and 12 May 2022.

Results: All but one participating health education program included some level of DC in their curriculum. However, few institutions provided DC training for teaching staff. DC training in municipalities and regions varies, but most agree that it is relevant. Some municipalities that do not offer DC training to HPs attribute this to a lack of MEM citizens.

Conclusions: Most health professionals lack adequate access to diversity competence training. Regions, municipalities and educational institutions should provide continuing medical education for healthcare workers in this area.

Funding: None.

Trial registration: Not relevant.

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丹麦各地保健专业人员接受多元化培训的机会。

导言：在欧洲和丹麦，移民和少数民族（MEM）与多数人口之间存在健康差距。随着多样性的增加，为MEM提供适当的医疗保健至关重要。对卫生专业人员（HP）进行多元化能力培训，使他们为多元化社会做好准备，并有助于解决MEM之间的健康差异。本研究的目的是调查在丹麦各部门存在哪些关于DC培训的教育活动。方法：向所有健康教育项目、市、地区（包括医院）、卫生保健工作者工会、医学会/协会、卫生部和丹麦卫生局发送电子邮件调查。在联系的295家机构中，有148家做出了回应。排除了10项调查，得到138项调查的数据集，回复率为46.8%。数据收集于2022年2月21日至5月12日。结果：除一个参与健康教育项目外，所有项目的课程中都包含了一定程度的DC。然而，很少有院校为教学人员提供数据中心培训。各市和地区的DC培训各不相同，但大多数人都认为这是相关的。一些不提供DC培训给hp的市政当局将此归因于缺乏MEM公民。结论：大多数卫生专业人员缺乏充分的多样性能力培训。各地区、直辖市和教育机构应当为本地区卫生保健工作者提供继续医学教育。资金:没有。试验注册：不相关。

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Danish medical journal MEDICINE, GENERAL & INTERNAL-

CiteScore

2.30

自引率

6.20%

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审稿时长

3-8 weeks

期刊介绍： The Danish Medical Journal (DMJ) is a general medical journal. The journal publish original research in English – conducted in or in relation to the Danish health-care system. When writing for the Danish Medical Journal please remember target audience which is the general reader. This means that the research area should be relevant to many readers and the paper should be presented in a way that most readers will understand the content. DMJ will publish the following articles: • Original articles • Protocol articles from large randomized clinical trials • Systematic reviews and meta-analyses • PhD theses from Danish faculties of health sciences • DMSc theses from Danish faculties of health sciences.