International Journal of Migration, Health and Social Care: Volume 16 Issue 1

School nurses’ and teachers’ perceptions of pain in young immigrants living in Norway

Berit Johannessen, Magnhild Hoie, Kristin Haraldstad, Solvi Helseth, Liv Fegran, Thomas Westergren, Åshild Slettebø, Gudrun Rohde

The number of adolescents experiencing pain is increasing. Pain has a major impact on several areas of daily living, such as function at school and school absenteeism, loss of…

Health-seeking cultural patterns in the use of available healthcare services among refugee groups in south-central Kentucky

Chika Ejike, Grace Lartey, Randy Capps, David Ciochetty

Refugees resettle in the USA every year to escape genocide, famine, civil wars and crises in their countries. The diverse cultural identities of the refugee population in…

Access to health-care policies for refugees and asylum-seekers

Salma El-Gamal, Johanna Hanefeld

The influx of refugees and asylum-seekers over the past decade into the European Union creates challenges to the health systems of receiving countries in the preparedness and…

The cultural context of sexual and reproductive health support: an exploration of sexual and reproductive health literacy among female Asylum Seekers and Refugees in Glasgow

Mari Kaneoka, William Spence

Sexual and reproductive health (SRH) incorporates prevention of unplanned pregnancies, unsafe abortions, and sexually transmitted infections (STIs). The sourcing, understanding…

Measuring subjective well-being in an understudied population of young Western-African IDPs and refugees

Guido Veronese, Alessandro Pepe, Giovanni Sala, Marzia Vigliaroni

The purpose of this paper is to report a real-life empirical case and discuss some caveats emerged in measuring subjective well-being (SWB) in an understudied population of…

Interdisciplinary treatment of family violence in traumatized refugee families

Nina Thorup Dalgaard, Marie Høgh Thøgersen, Edith Montgomery

The purpose of this paper is to explore the defining characteristics of an interdisciplinary culturally sensitive approach to family therapy with traumatized refugee families…

Drug use and criminality among unaccompanied refugee minors: a review of the literature

Anna-Karin Ivert, Mia-Maria Magnusson

Organisations working with children have acknowledged that unaccompanied refugee minors (URM) across Europe are exposed to environments and situations that put them at risk for…

Assessing migrants’ satisfaction from health care services in Cyprus: a nationwide study

Christos Panagiotopoulos, Menelaos Apostolou, Agamemnonas Zachariades

As long as migration is recognized as a public health concern, policies exist to address migrants’ health, and provide comprehensive information on how public and private health…