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- Gard, Helena, et al.
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Exploring young people's experiences of race, gender and socioeconomic status in relation to everyday challenges : A focus group study
- 2024
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Ingår i: Children & society. - : John Wiley & Sons. - 0951-0605 .- 1099-0860. ; 38:1, s. 228-244
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- Reports indicate a decrease in youth mental health in Sweden but at the same time research suggests that what is interpreted as mental ill-health could be considered everyday challenges by young people themselves. The distribution of mental health and illness among young people is uneven based on inequities related to factors such as race, gender and socioeconomic status. Sweden in particular is a country with large socioeconomic inequities in youth mental health and in school results, compared to other European countries. The aim of this study was to explore young people's experiences of the role of race, gender and socioeconomic status in relation to everyday challenges. Sixty-five young people aged 13–15 years old were recruited by student health services and participated in focus group discussions at schools in the southernmost part of Sweden. Data were analysed by secondary analysis with deductive qualitative content analysis using Ecosocial theory of disease distribution as theoretical framework. The analysis resulted in one main theme; Navigating inequities to gain and keep social status, with three underlying themes; Guided by social norms, Negative impact in everyday life and Importance of family influence. Participants were aware and critical of norms and expectations related to race, gender and socioeconomic status. Experiences of prejudice and unfairness was both own lived experiences by the participants as well as observed through friends and classmates. Young people spontaneously identify everyday challenges related to race, gender and socioeconomic status, even when not asked directly about these issues. Conforming to sexist, racist and classist, expectations is a way to lose and gain status in a school setting. Many of the inequities discussed related to socioeconomic status and the direct consequences of having or not having money. Young people's everyday experience of inequities is important to consider in youth mental health promotion aiming to tackle health inequities. Further research is needed on those experiences and how this affects mental health.
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- Gard, Helena, et al.
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Exploring young people's experiences of race, gender and socioeconomic status in relation to everyday challenges : A focus group study
- 2024
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Ingår i: Children & society. - : John Wiley & Sons. - 0951-0605 .- 1099-0860. ; 38:1, s. 228-244
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- Reports indicate a decrease in youth mental health in Sweden but at the same time research suggests that what is interpreted as mental ill-health could be considered everyday challenges by young people themselves. The distribution of mental health and illness among young people is uneven based on inequities related to factors such as race, gender and socioeconomic status. Sweden in particular is a country with large socioeconomic inequities in youth mental health and in school results, compared to other European countries. The aim of this study was to explore young people's experiences of the role of race, gender and socioeconomic status in relation to everyday challenges. Sixty-five young people aged 13-15 years old were recruited by student health services and participated in focus group discussions at schools in the southernmost part of Sweden. Data were analysed by secondary analysis with deductive qualitative content analysis using Ecosocial theory of disease distribution as theoretical framework. The analysis resulted in one main theme; Navigating inequities to gain and keep social status, with three underlying themes; Guided by social norms, Negative impact in everyday life and Importance of family influence. Participants were aware and critical of norms and expectations related to race, gender and socioeconomic status. Experiences of prejudice and unfairness was both own lived experiences by the participants as well as observed through friends and classmates. Young people spontaneously identify everyday challenges related to race, gender and socioeconomic status, even when not asked directly about these issues. Conforming to sexist, racist and classist, expectations is a way to lose and gain status in a school setting. Many of the inequities discussed related to socioeconomic status and the direct consequences of having or not having money. Young people's everyday experience of inequities is important to consider in youth mental health promotion aiming to tackle health inequities. Further research is needed on those experiences and how this affects mental health.
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- Stenberg, Marie, et al.
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Supporting each other towards independence : A narrative analysis of first‐year nursing students' collaborative process
- 2024
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Ingår i: Nursing Inquiry. - : John Wiley & Sons. - 1320-7881 .- 1440-1800. ; 31:3
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- Collaboration for nursing is a core competence and therefore educational interventions are essentials for collaborative skills. To identify such interventions, we carried out a study to understand nursing students' collaborative process. A narrative inquiry method was used to explore the collaborative process of first-year undergraduate nursing students. The analysis was conducted on field notes from 70 h of observation of 87 nursing students' collaboration during skills lab activities. It also included transcriptions of four focus group discussions with 11 students. The results are presented as a sequential process of (1) navigating in unfamiliar territory, (2) navigating together to cope, and (3) navigating together towards independency and the future nursing profession. We identified a transition from teacher-led assistance and guidance to student interdependency and reciprocal learning, ending with student-led assistance supporting independency. In line with Vygotsky's theory of zone of proximal development, different scaffolding interventions are needed depending on where the students are in the collaborative process.
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- Dalingwater, Louise, et al.
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Policies on marginalized migrant communities during Covid-19 : migration management prioritized over population health
- 2023
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Ingår i: Critical Policy Studies. - : Routledge. - 1946-0171 .- 1946-018X. ; 17:2, s. 316-336
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- Migration management policies in many states have marginalized significant numbers of individuals on the basis of their precarious residency status, negatively impacting their health. This article looks at how three European states with high levels of contagion - France, Sweden, and the United Kingdom - adapted their migration management policies to the changed circumstances during the Covid 19 pandemic in which there was new pressure for prioritizing population health over other concerns. The analysis compares globally-recognized 'best practices' for migrant health during the pandemic with policies adopted by France, Sweden, and the UK - selected as prominent migrant-hosting states and that experienced high rates of Covid-19. The article draws on supplementary evidence through interviews with civil society organizations working directly with migrants living on the margins of society - what are termed here 'marginalized migrants' (MMs). As the article concludes, the national policies often fell below international 'best practices' such that migration management was often prioritized over population health despite the crisis. The perspective developed in this paper is important for understanding where migration control policies have been prioritized over public health.
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- Mangrio, Elisabeth, 1978-, et al.
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Health, social, and dental professionals’ experiences of working within an extended home-visit program in the child healthcare : A qualitative interview study in Sweden
- 2023
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Ingår i: BMC Health Services Research. - : BioMed Central (BMC). - 1472-6963. ; 23
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- BackgroundThe goal of the Swedish child healthcare system is to reach all children with health-promotive actions and to create equal health opportunities for all children. In that context, an extended home-visit program – called Grow Safely – for first-time parents, with an interprofessional collaboration between child healthcare nurses, midwives, social workers, and dental assistants, was initiated. The current study aims at illuminating and evaluating the health, social, and dental professionals’ experiences of working within this program and how such collaboration could benefit the professions.MethodsA qualitative method was chosen, and 13 interviews were carried out with professionals working within child healthcare centers that participated in an extended home-visit program in the southernmost part of Sweden. The interviews were analyzed via Burnard’s approach to content analysis.ResultsThe results showed that it was satisfying for the health, social, and dental professionals to work with the home-visit program and that they encountered positive feelings among the parents receiving it. The creation of deep conversations and parents opening up about feelings that could otherwise be shameful to express, was a positive aspect of the home visits. A negative aspect was the difficulty of handling the (sometimes necessary) interpretation over the phone during the visits, and another one was the fact that the visits were time-consuming and required logistical planning. Overall, the professionals were positive about the home-visit program in that they felt that they were able to give the families what they needed and to have discussions on sensitive issues. They also appreciated the fact that different professions collaborated in order to reach the same goal. ConclusionsThis study showed that the health, social, and dental professionals enjoyed working with the home-visit program and that they encountered positive feelings among the parents regarding the collaborative visits being conducted within the home, where the families felt safe and relaxed. Despite the extended time required and the logistical challenges involved, the professionals expressed that the home visits created a deeper collaboration amongst them.
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- Mangrio, Elisabeth, 1978-, et al.
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Meeting families in various social situations : Reflections from healthcare staff working with an extended home-visiting program in Sweden
- 2023
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Ingår i: Discover Health Systems. - : Springer Nature. - 2731-7501. ; 2, s. 1-6
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- Objectives Health inequalities exist among children in Sweden, and one effort that the Swedish government has focused on to promote health among small children and their parents is an extended home-visiting program during the child’s first 15 months. This study aimed to illuminate healthcare professionals’ experiences of meeting parents in different social situations during the home visits within Grow safely. MethodsThe chosen method was qualitative, and 13 interviews were carried out with healthcare, social, and dental professionals working with the extended home-visiting program within the child healthcare in the south of Sweden. ResultsThe results revealed that the parents raised differing needs in the meetings with the healthcare professionals in the program. The needs included advice on children with special needs, support with problematic breastfeeding, and more psychosocial support. The professionals met different groups of parents, such as young parents or newly arrived migrant parents, that in different ways needed the team to reach out to them. The professionals also met families who came from better-off areas and who were not initially considered to really need the program. As the program progressed, these parents could see that diverse, unpredictable needs could be met by the intervention. For example, the program provided access to and advice from social workers, which in turn created contacts that lasted longer than the program itself.ConclusionsThe professionals encountered various family situations and needs within the extended home-visiting program. This highlights the need for a close collaboration between child healthcare nurses and social workers, in order to be able to support the families and work towards the aim of reaching equal health among all children in Sweden.
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- Mangrio, Elisabeth, 1978-, et al.
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Växa tryggt : Slutrapport från Malmö universitets forskargrupp
- 2023
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Rapport (populärvet., debatt m.m.)abstract
- Under åren 2019–2022 genomfördes en satsning på ett utökat hembesöks-program för förstagångsföräldrar inom barnhälsovården i Skåne. Satsningen hade namnet Växa tryggt och baserades på erfarenheter av ett liknande program i Rinkeby. I Växa tryggt erbjöds förstagångsföräldrar sammanlagt sex hembesök under barnets första 15 månader. Besöken genomfördes i ett sam-arbete mellan barnmorskor, barnhälsovårdssjuksköterskor, föräldrastödjare och tandsköterskor/tandhygienister.En tvärvetenskaplig forskargrupp från Malmö universitet har på uppdrag av Region Skåne forskat om Växa tryggts genomförande och effekter. Forsk-ningen har inkluderat intervjuer och enkäter riktade till deltagande familjer, de professioner som genomförde hembesöken, verksamhetschefer och politiska beslutsfattare.I denna rapport redovisas forskargruppens övergripande resultat. Resultaten visar genomgående att både professioner och deltagande familjer var mycket nöjda med de utökade hembesöken. För professionerna, främst familjestöd-jaren och tandsköterskan/tandhygienisten, har Växa tryggt inneburit möj-ligheter att tidigt komma i kontakt med barnfamiljer i upptagningsområdet. Utöver stöd och support i enskilda frågor har professionerna även kunnat informera om ytterligare stöd som barnhälsovården, socialtjänsten och tand-vården kan erbjuda. För familjerna har de utökade hembesöken varit ett stöd i den intiala osäkerhet som ofta präglar ett nyblivet föräldraskap. Samtidigt har Växa tryggt främjat möjligheten att bygga tillitsfulla relationer med välfärds-professioner som utifrån sina skilda kompetenser är experter på barn- och familjeliv. Hemmet har i det föreliggande projektet visat sig vara en bra arena för att kunna individanpassa råd och stöd. Ytterligare en positiv effekt av Växa tryggt har varit att fera professioner samverkat i hembesöken och därmed kunnat komplettera och stärka varandra i dialoger med familjerna.
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- Dalingwater, Louise, et al.
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The well-being of marginalized migrants in Europe duing the Covid-19 epidemic: evidence from France, Sweden, and the UK
- 2022
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Ingår i: The Unequal Costs of Covid-19 on Well-being in Europe. - Cham : Springer Nature. ; , s. 177-202
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Bokkapitel (refereegranskat)abstract
- International guidance set forth recommendations to protect marginalized migrant populations during Covid-19 given the significant inequalities in terms of social and economic well-being reported in the literature. However, a cross-country study of three European countries with high rates of Covid-19 infections and deaths has shown that migrant well-being has significantly decreased since the outbreak of Covid-19 in Europe from March 2020 and that policy measures to help those marginalized populations have been insufficient. The conclusions on migrant well-being during Covid-19 draw on interviews with prominent civil society organizations in all three countries that work specifically on migrant health and welfare. All interviews were semi-structured and conducted between October and November 2020. The analysis mainly focuses on objective/material measures of well-being related to access to health care, information on prevention of infection, housing and exclusion by host population.
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- Mangrio, Elisabeth, 1978-, et al.
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Rapport #2 PHED-kommissionen för framtiden för hälso-och sjukvård efter Covid-19 : allmän hälso- och sjukvård för en gemensam framtid. Baserad på offentliga seminarier som hållits mars - juni 2021
- 2022
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Rapport (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- Den här rapporten ger en sammanfattning av de seminarier som organiserades under våren 2021 av PHEDKommissionen för framtiden för hälso- och sjukvården efter covid-19, som bjöd in till vittnesmål från hälso- och sjukvårdspersonal, tjänstemän, tankesmedjor, forskare, civilsamhället och andra intresserade parter baserat på de erfarenheter de fått och lärt sig av under pandemin. De vittnesmål som framfördes kom från många olika geografska platser och många olika nivåer, vilket gjorde dem relevanta både för Sverige och globalt. De fastställer fera centrala rekommendationer för att skydda och förbättra folkhälsan. Dessa rekommendationer både kompletterar och i hög grad utökar de rekommendationer som togs fram i den första rapporten, som var mer fokuserad på Sverige (”Ojämlikhet i samhället gör oss sårbara för pandemier”) och baserad på vittnesmål från hösten 2020, och som kan nås via: https://phed.uni.mau.se/. Den stora mängd erfarenheter som sammanfattas här går långt utöver pandemiperioden och tillhandahåller idéer och praktisk vägledning för att skydda och stärka människors hälsa så att den blir mer motståndskraftig inför framtida kriser.
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- Mangrio, Elisabeth, 1978-, et al.
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Report #2 PHED commission on the future of healthcare post covid-19 : universal health coverage for a real future. Based on sessions conducted from March until June 2021
- 2022
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Rapport (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- This report summarises the Spring 2021 sessions of the PHED Commission on the Future of Healthcare Post Covid-19, which invited testimony from healthcare practitioners, civil servants, thinktanks, researchers, civil society, and other interested parties based on their experiences learnt during the pandemic. The evidence presented came from multiple geographies and levels, making it relevant both to Sweden and globally. It identifes several key recommendations for protecting and improving public health. These recommendations supplement and greatly expand upon those identifed in the report (‘Societal inequity makes us vulnerable to pandemics’) based on testimony from Fall/Autumn 2020, which can be accessed via: https://phed.uni.mau.se/. The wealth of experience summarized here goes well beyond the pandemic period, providing ideas and practical guidance for protecting and strengthening human health to be more resilient in the face of future crises.
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