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How Dutch Health-care Neglects Super-diversity

Received: 19 June 2019     Accepted: 18 July 2019     Published: 31 July 2019
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This article is about super-diverse ’healthcare. According to the Dutch ‘Centraal Bureau voor de Statistiek (CBS)’ 23.12% of the Dutch population comes from a country other than the Netherlands [1]. Large groups of immigrants in the Netherlands are now Indonesian, Surinamese, Turkish, Moroccan and Polish. The CBS is concerned about the (physical and mental) health of non-Western immigrants in comparison to the original Dutch [1]. In this article a proposal is made for the reorganization of psychological health care that does justice to our super-diverse society. The building blocks of this proposal come from legislation, international and national guidelines, transcultural psychiatry, and the results of scientific and practical research in healthcare. A prominent place has been given in this proposal for the concepts of 'ethnic matching' and 'all-inclusive multiculturalism' in the workplace. All-inclusive multiculturalism is about the necessity to introduce just and tolerant social super-diversity in the workplace.

Published in Humanities and Social Sciences (Volume 7, Issue 4)
DOI 10.11648/j.hss.20190704.11
Page(s) 125-131
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Keywords

Multilingualism, Super Diverse Healthcare, Disease Narratives, Cultural Explanation, Holism, Collectivism

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