학술논문

Health status of recently arrived asylum seekers in their host country: results of a cross-sectional observational study
Document Type
article
Source
BMC Public Health, Vol 22, Iss 1, Pp 1-10 (2022)
Subject
Asylum seeking
Health status
Prevalence
Mental health
Public aspects of medicine
RA1-1270
Language
English
ISSN
1471-2458
Abstract
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 multivariate analysis was performed using a logistic regression model to predict the health status. Factors taken into account were those significantly associated with outcome (level