Immigrants in Portugal: reflexion about support and primary health care

Objetive: to take a reflexion about the support and primary helth care given to immigrants in Portugal. Method: it was carried out a literature review of primary helth care to the immigrants in Portugal. First, in online journals, using the High Wire, Google Academic database, and by insert the following terms: primary health care and immigrant. Second, papers on press journals were used, once online papers were not enought. Results: the good manners on host practice promotes the adaptation and the integration of immigrant populations and also it prevents xenofobic behaviors. Portugal has been classified, by the its European partners, as a country were the programs implemented for practices on integration and adaptation of the immigrant population are efficient and also as a country with a legislation that promotes those good practices. Conclusion: health care in Portugal are focused in the majorities, so that it is urgent to reorganize health care, having in mind the minorities and the resident populations that usually remain outside the health care. Thus, health care professionals, namely nurses should promote culturally competent heath support. Descriptors: primary helth care; immigrants; nursing.RESUMO Objetivo: refletir sobre os apoios e a filosofia dos cuidados de saúde primários aos imigrantes em Portugal. Método: realizou-se uma revisão de literatura sobre cuidados de saúde primários a imigrantes e sobre a imigração em Portugal. Recorreu-se em primeiro lugar a publicações on line, usando como descritores Cuidados Primários de Saúde e Imigrante através da base de dados High Wire e Google – Acadêmico. E finalmente recorreu-se a literatura impressa dado que os artigos on line não eram suficientes para debater o assunto. Resultados: o constante trabalho de boas práticas de acolhimento promove a adaptação e integração das populações imigrantes e previne comportamentos de xenofobia. Portugal foi considerado pelos seus parceiros europeus como tendo implementado programas eficazes de integração e ...