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How young migrants perceive school health education in Sweden
Örebro University, School of Health Sciences. Department of Primary and Secondary Teacher Education, Oslo Metropolitan University, Oslo, Norway.ORCID iD: 0000-0003-4162-9844
Örebro University, School of Health Sciences.ORCID iD: 0000-0003-1097-8750
Department of Movement, Culture and Society, Section for Physical Education and Health, The Swedish School of Sport and Health Sciences (GIH), Stockholm, Sweden.
School of Education, Edith Cowan University, Perth Western Australia, Australia.
2025 (English)In: Health Education Research, ISSN 0268-1153, E-ISSN 1465-3648, Vol. 40, no 3, article id cyaf012Article in journal (Refereed) Published
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The aim of this paper is to provide insights into how young people who have been forced to migrate perceive school health education. Eighteen individuals aged 15-19 years (10 females, 8 males, average age 16.9 years) took part in either focus group interviews (n = 7) or individual interviews (n = 1). Participants were first presented with short scenarios concerning health education and were invited to use these scenarios as starting points to discuss their own experiences of health education. Participants were then presented with a collection of photographs that portrayed people displaying broad dimensions of health. Participants were asked to discuss the significance of the health dimensions in their lives, and describe how these dimensions were covered in school health education. Our findings suggest three broad perceptions of health education content: a moderately enthusiastic perception, a disengaged perception, and a marginalized perception. These findings: raise questions about whether the provision of health education matches the needs of young migrants, point to cultural differences in the way health topics are understood, and suggest that school health education might influence how migrants interact with health service providers.

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Oxford University Press, 2025. Vol. 40, no 3, article id cyaf012
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URN: urn:nbn:se:oru:diva-120772DOI: 10.1093/her/cyaf012ISI: 001469370100001PubMedID: 40249673Scopus ID: 2-s2.0-105002841587OAI: oai:DiVA.org:oru-120772DiVA, id: diva2:1954425
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Swedish Research Council, 2020–03309Available from: 2025-04-24 Created: 2025-04-24 Last updated: 2025-05-06Bibliographically approved

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