Perspectives on health examination for asylum seekers in relation to health literacy – focus group discussions with Arabic and Somali speaking participants

Perspectives on health examination for asylum seekers in relation to health literacy – focus group discussions with Arabic and Somali speaking participants

Abstract Background Asylum seekers coming to most countries are offered a specific health examination. A previous study concluded that a considerable proportion of those taking part of it in Sweden had poor experiences of the communication in and the usefulness of this examination and had poor healt...

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Main Authors: Josefin Wångdahl, Ragnar Westerling, Per Lytsy, Lena Mårtensson
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: BMC 2019-09-01
Series:BMC Health Services Research
Subjects:
Health check-up
Health communication
Health literacy
Migrants
Qualitative research
Online Access:http://link.springer.com/article/10.1186/s12913-019-4484-4

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