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Published on: July 10, 2017
[First-generation immigrant adolescents' physical and mental health and behaviors]
F Noirhomme-Renard1, A Deccache
1Unité d'éducation pour la santé, école de santé publique, faculté de médecine, université catholique de Louvain, 5070, avenue Emmanuel-Mounier, 1200 Bruxelles, Belgique. florence.renard@reso.ucl.ac.be
Abstract:
The objectives of this article are to: a) review literature about physical, mental health and behaviors of first generation immigrant adolescents and its evolution; b) compare first and second generations immigrant adolescents'health. Studies usually compare first generation and others adolescents groups: 1) first generation adolescents shows better physical health and behaviors than second generation; 2) first generation adolescents shows variable results for mental health compared to second generation and host adolescents according to the studies; 3) a degradation of physical health and behaviors is observed with the time passed in the host country. These results show necessity of a precocious evaluation of first generation adolescents' needs for a good planification of health promotion and prevention actions to preserve their health advantage at arrival.
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