ABSTRACT
This chapter provides an overview of migrants' use of primary health care, and explains factors for the differences in the utilization of health services. It describes general barriers associated with the use of health care services for migrants, and suggests tools to improve access to health care services for migrants. Children of migrants might use health care services differently for various reasons apart from their burden of disease. The life-course perspective is relevant for understanding migrants' use of services as compared to majority populations. Socioeconomic factors like gender, income, or education are associated with both disease burden and use of health services for all groups. Although it is important to have the evidence to fight stereotypes among the public in general, in the case of health professionals it is also vital to understand the underlying mechanisms by which migrants are often perceived as a burden.
