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Background: Refugees, Migrants and Roma, have complex and various medical and social needs, where it results that the health professionals have to deal with many challenges in progress of providing health care. Purpose: The research of the health professionals' points of views, towards the particularities of the provision of care to the refugees, migrants and Roma. Material and Method: For the research was used the method of sampling none probabilities since the population is not known while the sampling is also defined as convenience methodology. The questionnaire was posted on the internet and was sent in different e-mails and web pages in order to collect the answers. The form of the questionnaire was digital and the creation of the questionnaire was carried out using Google Docs. Results: The 87% of the participants to the research were women and the 13% men, the vast majority of the participants have concluded higher education level and master's degree. the people participated in the research were living all over Greece and only few of them lived abroad, most of the them are working in hospitals and they answered that they didn't know the term intercultural nursing. More than half of the interviewees answered that the lack of intercultural training creates fear and anxiety to them since they are having trouble communicating, having trouble with cultural peculiarities or the absence of translators. Many of the respondents expressed their desire to attend intercultural health education programs since most of them are not educated -- prepared to help foreigners because they lack knowledge in cultural issues that affect attitude or behavior (e.g., transfusion). Finally this research demonstrated that the majority of the Health care professionals believe that the positive climate of cooperation between them and with the leadership of the health services helps and positively influences the service of foreigners / immigrants / Roma. Conclusions: The health professionals should have the necessary knowledge in order to approach effectively their patients of different cultural teams and they are adjusting at different juncture and requirements. That's why education in intercultural health care must be continuous in order to sensitize and inform the health professionals about the peculiarities of the people with different social background, different culture or language, with further purpose the improvement of the provision of Intercultural Health Care in the context of a multicultural society. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]