1. Introduction
Ms Dorothy Boatemah Ameyaw
Career drive:
More than 20 years of professional experience as a
geriatrician nurse
 Accomplished assignments from NGOs on elderly
health care need in Ghana
Membership to numerous diaspora organizations
CEO Voice Of sub-Sahara African Woman
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2. TOPIC
African migrants Health
 FACTORS
&
 EXPERIENCES
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3. FACTORS
 Dwindling Life Expectancy
 Inadequate use of Health provisions
 Insufficient Knowledge of Western health experts on
tropical diseases
 Subjects of high-risk jobs for Africans
 Communication barrier
 Consistently, failed development Aid regimes
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4. FACORTS
Dwindling Life expectancy
 Statistics is inconsistent
From over 50yrs in the 70s to about 40 yrs
since late 90s
Courses:
 New Infections such as HIV/AID, War,
Ebola, growing case of cancer
 After-effect of homeland escaped
problems such as war trauma, family
pressure, ETC
 Pressure from Western system
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5. FACORTS
Inadequate use of Health provision
 Social stigma: Less education
 Belief: Religion and cultural factors
 Not reporting health cases/symptoms on time
 Poor nutrition
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6. FACTORS
 Insufficient Knowledge of tropical diseases
 We don’t know
 Wrong diagnosis
 Distrust (among Africans and health-care system)
African with the means sometimes resort to going back to
Africa for Treatment
Spread of negative rumor
Ageing of the first generation
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7. FACTORS
Subjects of high-risk jobs
 Over 90% of Africans are in black-collar jobs
 Not aware the associated risk
 Labourous, long hour and less health care
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8. FACTORS
Communication barrier
 Failed integration approach
 Language barrier
 Elements of distrust
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9. FACTORS
Consistently, failed development Aid regimes
 Higher figures on book
 Too many donors and approaches with poor coordination
 Too less result
 The most vulnerable are still not reached (home and
abroad)
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10. EXPERIENCES
(With recommendation)
1. Insignificant gap between life expectancy of Africans;
(home and abroad)
 Appropriate communication tool is
needed on health issues, jobs health
hazard, ETC
 Increase cooperation with African
institutions on research
 Involve the African (professionals) in
Europe on healthcare research
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11. EXPERIENCES
(With recommendation)
2. Africans are not accepting Europe as a home for their old
age
 Aid should be directed at capacity building for
Geriatric (Elderly) home care in Africa
 Insurance scheme/policy must guarantee coverage at
home country (for old age)
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12. EXPERIENCES
(With recommendation)
3. How Effective are the integration
approaches?
 We are still in search of means
 Strong evidence of distrust exist
 Most Africans believe they are not
properly attended at health centers,
they are used for experiments
 For various reasons, self-medication is
still high among Africans
More should be done on cases of
institutional racism and trust building
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13. Conclusion
 Civilization shared by just a section of human race is
short of civilization
 The objectives of the Millennium Development Goal
should be taken seriously, in this way we can guarantee
good health and longer life span for the entire human
race
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