Physicians’ experiences of providing emergency care to undocumented migrants arriving in Spain by small boats
Ficheros
Identificadores
URI: http://hdl.handle.net/10835/15469
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ienj.2021.101006
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ienj.2021.101006
Compartir
Metadatos
Mostrar el registro completo del ítemAutor
Granero Molina, José; Jiménez Lasserrotte, María Del Mar; Ruiz Hernández, María Dolores; Hernández Padilla, José Manuel; Fernández Medina, Isabel María; [et al.]Fecha
2021-05-01Resumen
Introduction: Access to emergency care for undocumented migrants (UMs) is a public health problem. Spain
receives thousands of UMs who arrive by sea. A multidisciplinary team of the Spanish Red Cross, made up of
physicians, nurses, police, and cultural mediators, developed emergency care for UMs.
Aim: The aim of our study is to describe and understand the experiences of physicians in emergency care for UMs
who arrive in Spain by small boats
Methods: Qualitative study, based on Gadamer’s phenomenology. Convenience and purposive sampling was
carried out and included sixteen in-depth interviews with physicians, between June 2019 and March 2020 in
Spain.
Results: Three main themes emerged: 1) Rediscovering humanistic medicine; 2) Leaving the personal and professional
comfort zone; 3) Improving medical emergency care.
Conclusions: Triage, pharmacological prescription, and the closure of the emergency care process are the key
contributions of medical care. Cultural, language and s...
Palabra/s clave
Undocumented migrants
Emergency care
Physicians
Spain
Qualitative research
Phenomenology