Contents
- Lifestyle related illnesses and hypertension
- Cancer
- Mental health
- Immunisation
- Maternity services
- Children and young people
- Rough sleepers and homeless community members
- Introduction to the Roma health guide
- Barriers to healthcare for the Roma community
- System barriers
- Language barriers and communication
- Cultural barriers - Common health problems and vulnerable groups:
- Lifestyle related illnesses and hypertension
- Cancer
- Mental health
- Immunisation
- Maternity services
- Children and young people
- Rough sleepers and homeless community members
Resources
NHS guidance
- NHS England guidance on registration to GP surgeries
- Specific guidance on GP registration for Gypsy Roma and Traveller communities
- For EU citizens’ entitlements to healthcare, see the Migrant Health Guide
- Recommendations on community development approaches from PHE/NHSE
- Healthwatch “Your Care, Your Way” campaign is surveying the need for extending the NHS England Accessible Information Standard to cover interpreting services.
Materials for community engagement and training
- Roma Support Group videos on Covid-19: Facts about the Covid-19 virus (In Romanian)
- Doctors of the World Safe Surgeries initiative
- Groundswell “My right to healthcare” scheme
- Short video explaining the difference between Gypsy, Traveller and Roma communities
- Institute of Health Visiting: Roma mothers talk about breastfeeding, including video material
- Roma Support Group’s “Engaging with the Roma community” toolkit on the EU Settlement Scheme includes a list of organisations supporting the Roma community in local areas.
Research
- Romany language resource
- For information on social exclusion, see Council of Europe - Human rights of Roma and Travellers in Europe (2012)
- Settlement and integration experiences of Roma migrants in the UK including housing, education, employment and social welfare are explored in the University of Salford report “Supporting Roma voices”.
- University of Leeds study of Slovak Roma families with deaf children.
- NIHR study with proposals for improving immunisation in the Gypsy, Roma and Traveller communities.
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