Health status and healthcare services utilisation among unaccompanied asylum-seeking minors settled in Switzerland: a protocol for a retrospective cohort study from a hospital-based youth outpatient clinic.

ABSTRACT:

Introduction

Unaccompanied asylum-seeking minors (UASMs) represent a population group with complex healthcare needs. Initial and ongoing healthcare is challenging for host countries but considered essential. This publication describes the protocol concerning a large cohort of UASMs settled in Switzerland in 2015-2016. Our aim is to assess their health status and examine their trajectories of healthcare services utilisation during the 3-year period after their initial health control.

Methods and analysis

We will retrospectively analyse data of all newly arrived UASMs aged 12-18 years who benefited from a first health assessment at the Youth Clinic of Geneva University Hospitals between 1 January 2015 and 31 December 2016. Source of data will be electronic medical records. Mai

SUBMITTER: Patseadou M 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8896025 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Mar

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature