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Collaboration in health promotion for newly arrived migrants in Sweden
As a group, newly arrived migrants in Sweden face inequities in health compared to the general population. Successful promotion of population health requires awareness of and focus on health from several sectors of society. In light of this, the aim was to study the views of local authority official...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7259499/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32470045 http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0233659 |
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author | Svanholm, Sara Carlerby, Heidi Viitasara, Eija |
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description | As a group, newly arrived migrants in Sweden face inequities in health compared to the general population. Successful promotion of population health requires awareness of and focus on health from several sectors of society. In light of this, the aim was to study the views of local authority officials on collaboration in health promotion activities for newly arrived migrants. Data was collected through five focus group interviews with 23 local authority officials working with the integration of newly arrived migrants in the Establishment Program in a municipality or at the Employment Services in northern Sweden. An inductive qualitative latent content analysis was performed, and the analysis showed that the participating officials considered health promotion as desirable in the Establishment Program, but it also raised complex issues within the existing organisations. The officials described unclear roles, but also possible changes to the organisation that would improve the possibility of working to promote health. The present study adds to the relatively limited knowledge of health promotion in integration activities and offers clinical relevance for policymakers through the officials’ suggestions for improvements in the Establishment Program. It also raises important questions for further research. |
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spelling | pubmed-72594992020-06-08 Collaboration in health promotion for newly arrived migrants in Sweden Svanholm, Sara Carlerby, Heidi Viitasara, Eija PLoS One Research Article As a group, newly arrived migrants in Sweden face inequities in health compared to the general population. Successful promotion of population health requires awareness of and focus on health from several sectors of society. In light of this, the aim was to study the views of local authority officials on collaboration in health promotion activities for newly arrived migrants. Data was collected through five focus group interviews with 23 local authority officials working with the integration of newly arrived migrants in the Establishment Program in a municipality or at the Employment Services in northern Sweden. An inductive qualitative latent content analysis was performed, and the analysis showed that the participating officials considered health promotion as desirable in the Establishment Program, but it also raised complex issues within the existing organisations. The officials described unclear roles, but also possible changes to the organisation that would improve the possibility of working to promote health. The present study adds to the relatively limited knowledge of health promotion in integration activities and offers clinical relevance for policymakers through the officials’ suggestions for improvements in the Establishment Program. It also raises important questions for further research. Public Library of Science 2020-05-29 /pmc/articles/PMC7259499/ /pubmed/32470045 http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0233659 Text en © 2020 Svanholm et al http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) , which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited. |
spellingShingle | Research Article Svanholm, Sara Carlerby, Heidi Viitasara, Eija Collaboration in health promotion for newly arrived migrants in Sweden |
title | Collaboration in health promotion for newly arrived migrants in Sweden |
title_full | Collaboration in health promotion for newly arrived migrants in Sweden |
title_fullStr | Collaboration in health promotion for newly arrived migrants in Sweden |
title_full_unstemmed | Collaboration in health promotion for newly arrived migrants in Sweden |
title_short | Collaboration in health promotion for newly arrived migrants in Sweden |
title_sort | collaboration in health promotion for newly arrived migrants in sweden |
topic | Research Article |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7259499/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32470045 http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0233659 |
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