Bundesgesundheitsblatt - Gesundheitsforschung - Gesundheitsschutz
Volume 59, Issue 5, 2016, Pages 636-641

The health situation and health care needs of unaccompanied minor refugees – an approximation based on qualitative and quantitative studies from Bielefeld, Germany [Gesundheitliche Situation und Versorgung unbegleiteter minderjähriger Flüchtlinge – eine Näherung anhand qualitativer und quantitativer Forschung in der Stadt Bielefeld] (Article)

Spallek J.* , Tempes J. , Ricksgers H. , Marquardt L. , Prüfer-Krämer L. , Krämer A.
  • a Fakultät für Gesundheitswissenschaften, AG 3 Epidemiologie & International Public Health, Universität Bielefeld, 100131, Bielefeld, 33501, Germany, Institut für Gesundheit, Brandenburgische TU Cottbus-Senftenberg, Großenhainer Straße 57, Senftenberg, 01968, Germany
  • b Fakultät für Gesundheitswissenschaften, AG 3 Epidemiologie & International Public Health, Universität Bielefeld, 100131, Bielefeld, 33501, Germany
  • c Fakultät für Gesundheitswissenschaften, AG 3 Epidemiologie & International Public Health, Universität Bielefeld, 100131, Bielefeld, 33501, Germany
  • d Fakultät für Gesundheitswissenschaften, AG2 Biomedizinische Grundlagen und Bevölkerungsmedizin, Universität Bielefeld, 100131, Bielefeld, 33501, Germany
  • e Fakultät für Gesundheitswissenschaften, AG2 Biomedizinische Grundlagen und Bevölkerungsmedizin, Universität Bielefeld, 100131, Bielefeld, 33501, Germany
  • f Fakultät für Gesundheitswissenschaften, AG2 Biomedizinische Grundlagen und Bevölkerungsmedizin, Universität Bielefeld, 100131, Bielefeld, 33501, Germany

Abstract

Unaccompanied minor refugees are children or adolescents below the age of 18 years who are not accompanied by their parents. International studies show that unaccompanied minor refugees represent a special risk group. Currently, empirical study results about the health status of unaccompanied minor refugees barely exist for Germany. Therefore, the goal of this article is an assessment of the health status and health care of unaccompanied minor refugees in Bielefeld, Germany. For this purpose, two qualitative studies and one quantitative study from Bielefeld are used. Results demonstrate that the health care of unaccompanied minor refugees underlies certain peculiarities that indicate major medical needs: Firstly, the need for psychological/psychiatric care and secondly the need for health care regarding infectious diseases. Further challenges in the health care needs of this population group result from its specific situation, and comprise legal conditions, as well as language and cultural competencies on behalf of the health care providers and the unaccompanied minor refugees themselves. © 2016, Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg.

Author Keywords

unaccompanied refugee minors Health situation Medical needs Infectious disease health care

Index Keywords

Needs Assessment Vulnerable Populations vulnerable population Germany refugee sex ratio human Communicable Diseases Refugees statistics and numerical data health status Minors Humans Adolescent Infant, Newborn male preschool child female Infant Child, Preschool newborn communicable disease control minor (person) Sex Distribution age distribution Health Services Accessibility health care delivery Child
Link
https://www.scopus.com/inward/record.uri?eid=2-s2.0-84963668289&doi=10.1007%2fs00103-016-2339-2&partnerID=40&md5=6eebb3770b619bb39eaef5f49364b442
DOI: 10.1007/s00103-016-2339-2
ISSN: 14369990
Cited by: 2
Original Language: German