Collaboration in health promotion for newly arrived migrants in Sweden.

ABSTRACT: 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 Establishmen

SUBMITTER: Svanholm S 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7259499 | biostudies-literature | 2020

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature