Atenção à saúde de imigrantes haitianos em diferentes países na atualidade: revisão integrativa de literatura

With globalization, migration flows have intensified and financial reasons are one of the main drivers of these events. Migrant populations have different needs, and access to health is essential to ensure their quality of life. Accordingly, this study aimed to analyze the scientific production on health care of international Haitian immigrants in different contexts and countries, seeking to understand what are the challenges and perspectives for the health care of this population in the investigated contexts. This is an Integrative Literature Review, performed from searches in the Medical Literature Analysis and Retrieval System Online (Medline/PubMed) and Scientific Electronic Library Online (SciELO), with the standardized descriptors ‘Health Care’ (‘Public Health’), ‘Haiti’ and ‘Emigrants and Immigrants’, combined through the Boolean operator AND. We selected articles published in the period 2015-2019, in Portuguese, English or Spanish, that dealt with this theme. From the analysis of the articles, we identified three categories of thematic analysis: Impacts of immigration regulations on the integration of Haitian immigrants; Intercultural competency for the health care for Haitian immigrants; and Health conditions and access to services by Haitian immigrants. We should highlight the importance of including intercultural political aspects in health policies focused on the health care for immigrants.  With globalization, migration flows have intensified and financial reasons are one of the main drivers of these events. Migrant populations have different needs, and access to health is essential to ensure their quality of life. Accordingly, this study aimed to analyze the scientific production on health care of international Haitian immigrants in different contexts and countries, seeking to understand what are the challenges and perspectives for the health care of this population in the investigated contexts. This is an Integrative Literature Review, performed from searches in the Medical Literature Analysis and Retrieval System Online (Medline/PubMed) and Scientific Electronic Library Online (SciELO), with the standardized descriptors ‘Health Care’ (‘Public Health’), ‘Haiti’ and ‘Emigrants and Immigrants’, combined through the Boolean operator AND. We selected articles published in the period 2015-2019, in Portuguese, English or Spanish, that dealt with this theme. From the analysis of the articles, we identified three categories of thematic analysis: Impacts of immigration regulations on the integration of Haitian immigrants; Intercultural competency for the health care for Haitian immigrants; and Health conditions and access to services by Haitian immigrants. We should highlight the importance of including intercultural political aspects in health policies focused on the health care for immigrants.