Impacto emocional: cáncer infantil – inmigración

Abstract

In the health environment we are increasingly aware of the foreigner’s presence of, cultural peculiarities and social characteristics that are assisted in the field of health, both in primary care and specialist. The inherent vulnerability of immigrants, often in an irregular situation you double when you add the economic, psychological and family that are linked to a disease like cancer so hard. That the patient is under age, makes the situation particularly critical and makes them doubly vulnerable people. This is the reality with which we are in our daily lives, children and young people diagnosed and treated for cancers that originate in other countries. Migration is defi ned as a risk factor to health due to the situation of high bio psychosocial vulnerability that is when migrating and fragile these people again in our special case are the families in which one of their children are children with cancer, dependents and weak for their physical and emotional. We can determinate specific child immigrant with cancer, highlighting clinical, social and emotional difference.