Strengthening the migrant-friendliness of Thai health services through interpretation and cultural mediation: a system analysis

Table 2 Roles and responsibilities of MHWs and MHVs

Components	Migrant health workers	Migrant health volunteers
Workplaces	Health facilities and communities	Communities
Allowances	Yes	No
Roles and responsibilities
• Interpretation	Yes	No
• Providing health education e.g. health insurance registration, health promotion and disease prevention	Yes (including to MHVs)	Yes
• Coordinating among health staff, migrant communities and other agencies, e.g. reporting disease outbreaks	Yes	Yes
• Assisting health staff, e.g. screening diseases	Yes	Yes
• Being role models of healthy lifestyles	Yes	Yes
• Translating bilingual materials	Yes	No
• Joining training courses and meeting regularly	Yes	No
• Surveying migrant demographic data in communities	Yes	No
• Following-up home health care	Yes	No

Source: Training Curriculum for Migrant Health Workers (2016) [15] and Training Curriculum of Migrant Health Volunteers (2016) [16]

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