Assessing the plight of young unaccompanied refugees

Jeremie Blaser; Anne-Emmanuelle Ambresin; Martine Monnat; Florence Faucherre; Javier Sanchis; Alejandro Rojas-Urrego; Bernard Hunziker; Mario Gehri; Patrick Bodenmann

doi:10.4414/smw.2017.14547

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Vol. 147 No. 4748 (2017)

Assessing the plight of young unaccompanied refugees

Jeremie Blaser
Anne-Emmanuelle Ambresin
Martine Monnat
Florence Faucherre
Javier Sanchis
Alejandro Rojas-Urrego
Bernard Hunziker
Mario Gehri
Patrick Bodenmann

DOI: https://doi.org/10.4414/smw.2017.14547
Cite this as:: Swiss Med Wkly. 2017;147:w14547
Published: 23.11.2017

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Campisi L, Berchtold A, Barrense-Dias Y, Akre C, Gehri M, Surís JC. Risk behaviours among natives and immigrant youths in Switzerland: a cross-sectional study. Swiss Med Wkly. 2017;147:w14531. https://smw.ch/en/article/doi/smw.2017.14531/
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Blaser J, Ambresin A-E, Monnat M, Faucherre F, Sanchis J, Rojas-Urrego A, Hunziker B, Gehri M, Bodenmann P. Assessing the plight of young unaccompanied refugees. Swiss Med Wkly [Internet]. 2017 Nov. 23 [cited 2024 Dec. 3];147(4748):w14547. Available from: https://smw.ch/index.php/smw/article/view/2413

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[1] Campisi L, Berchtold A, Barrense-Dias Y, Akre C, Gehri M, Surís JC. Risk behaviours among natives and immigrant youths in Switzerland: a cross-sectional study. Swiss Med Wkly. 2017;147:w14531. https://smw.ch/en/article/doi/smw.2017.14531/

[2] Arboit S. Sept tentatives de suicide parmi les requérants mineurs. 24 heures. 2016. 11 November.

[3] Humanrights.ch. Genève: les conditions d’accueil des mineurs non accompagnés sont inacceptables. 2016 25 November. Available from: https://www.humanrights.ch/fr/droits-humains-suisse/interieure/groupes/enfants/geneve-conditions-daccueil-mineurs-non-accompagnes-inacceptables.

[4] Thomas F. Handbook of Migration and Health. Cheltenham; Edward Elgar Publishing: 2016

[5] Fazel M, Reed RV, Panter-Brick C, Stein A. Mental health of displaced and refugee children resettled in high-income countries: risk and protective factors. Lancet. 2012;379(9812):266–82. doi:.https://doi.org/10.1016/S0140-6736(11)60051-2

[6] Depallens S, Plati C, Ambresin A. Une population qui grandit? Les mineurs non accompagnés aujourd’hui en Suisse. Paediatrica. 2016;Numéro spécial:21–2.

[7] Di Gallo A, Beutler H. La situation et les soins des réfugié-e-s mineur-e-s en Suisse. Bulletin des médecins suisses. 2017;14:432.

[8] Hochman M, Asch SM. Disruptive Models in Primary Care: Caring for High-Needs, High-Cost Populations. J Gen Intern Med. 2017;32(4):392–7. doi:.https://doi.org/10.1007/s11606-016-3945-2

[9] Conférence des directeurs cantonaux des affaires sociales. Coûts en hausse dans le domaine de l'asile et de l'intégration: Les cantons attendent une participation plus élevée de la Confédération. 2017. 6 March.

[10] UNHCR. Recommandations du HCR relatives à l’accueil des demandeurs d’asile en centres fédéraux. 2017. 29 August.