Health status of recently arrived asylum seekers in their host country: results of a cross-sectional observational study.

ABSTRACT:

Background

The World Health Organization (WHO) considers that the heterogeneity of concepts and definitions of migrants is an obstacle to obtaining evidence to inform public health policies. There is no recent data on the health status of only asylum seekers who have recently arrived in their Western host country. The purpose of this study was to determine the health status of asylum seekers and search for explanatory factors for this health status.

Methods

This cross-sectional observational study screened the mental and somatic health of adult asylum seekers who had arrived in France within the past 21 days and went to the Marseille single center between March 1 and August 31, 2021. In order to study the explanatory factors of the asylum seekers' health status, a multivaria

SUBMITTER: Khouani J 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9450400 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Sep

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature