Politicians’ views on societal responsibility and possibility to promote newly arrived migrants’ health in Sweden
Newly arrived migrants in Sweden risk facing ill health. Politicians at the local and regional levels are involved in many decisions regarding the social determinants of health. The aim of this study was to explore politicians’ views on different societal actors’ responsibility and possibility to pr...
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ftmittuniv:oai:DiVA.org:miun-44221 2023-05-15T17:44:52+02:00 Politicians’ views on societal responsibility and possibility to promote newly arrived migrants’ health in Sweden Svanholm, Sara Carlerby, Heidi Viitasara, Eija 2021 application/pdf http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:miun:diva-44221 https://doi.org/10.1093/heapro/daab199 eng eng Mittuniversitetet, Institutionen för hälsovetenskap Health Promotion International, 0957-4824, 2021 orcid:0000-0002-4091-3483 orcid:0000-0001-5134-4338 orcid:0000-0003-3664-8290 http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:miun:diva-44221 doi:10.1093/heapro/daab199 ISI:000789445400001 info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess politicians migrants cluster analysis health promotion integration Public Health Global Health Social Medicine and Epidemiology Folkhälsovetenskap global hälsa socialmedicin och epidemiologi Article in journal info:eu-repo/semantics/article text 2021 ftmittuniv https://doi.org/10.1093/heapro/daab199 2023-04-07T06:12:40Z Newly arrived migrants in Sweden risk facing ill health. Politicians at the local and regional levels are involved in many decisions regarding the social determinants of health. The aim of this study was to explore politicians’ views on different societal actors’ responsibility and possibility to promote newly arrived migrants’ health. Data were collected through online questionnaires completed by 667 politicians from municipality and regional councils in northern Sweden. Bivariate analysis was performed using the Wilcoxon signed-rank test. Multivariate analyses were performed using cluster analysis and binary logistic regression analysis. The results show that politicians generally rate societal actors’ responsibility and possibility to promote the general population’s health higher than newly arrived migrants’ health. Moreover, they consider societal actors’ responsibility to be greater than their possibility to promote health. Factors significantly contributing to politicians’ high ratings of societal responsibility and possibility are attitude (odds ratio [OR] = 2.156, 95% confidence interval [CI]: 1.306–3.558), specific knowledge of newly arrived migrants’ health status (OR = 1.528, 95% CI: 1.005–2.323), personal interest in public health (OR = 2.452, 95% CI: 1.460–4.119), being a municipality politician (OR = 1.659, 95% CI: 1.031–2.670) and being female (OR = 1.934, 95% CI: 1.333–2.806). This study shows that politicians generally rate societal responsibility and possibility to promote newly arrived migrants’ health rather high. Personal characteristics are important for politicians’ high or low ratings of responsibility and possibility, suggesting insufficient structural support for politicians in health promotion. Article in Journal/Newspaper Northern Sweden Mid Sweden University: Publications (DiVA) Health Promotion International |
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Newly arrived migrants in Sweden risk facing ill health. Politicians at the local and regional levels are involved in many decisions regarding the social determinants of health. The aim of this study was to explore politicians’ views on different societal actors’ responsibility and possibility to promote newly arrived migrants’ health. Data were collected through online questionnaires completed by 667 politicians from municipality and regional councils in northern Sweden. Bivariate analysis was performed using the Wilcoxon signed-rank test. Multivariate analyses were performed using cluster analysis and binary logistic regression analysis. The results show that politicians generally rate societal actors’ responsibility and possibility to promote the general population’s health higher than newly arrived migrants’ health. Moreover, they consider societal actors’ responsibility to be greater than their possibility to promote health. Factors significantly contributing to politicians’ high ratings of societal responsibility and possibility are attitude (odds ratio [OR] = 2.156, 95% confidence interval [CI]: 1.306–3.558), specific knowledge of newly arrived migrants’ health status (OR = 1.528, 95% CI: 1.005–2.323), personal interest in public health (OR = 2.452, 95% CI: 1.460–4.119), being a municipality politician (OR = 1.659, 95% CI: 1.031–2.670) and being female (OR = 1.934, 95% CI: 1.333–2.806). This study shows that politicians generally rate societal responsibility and possibility to promote newly arrived migrants’ health rather high. Personal characteristics are important for politicians’ high or low ratings of responsibility and possibility, suggesting insufficient structural support for politicians in health promotion. |
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Svanholm, Sara Carlerby, Heidi Viitasara, Eija |
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Politicians’ views on societal responsibility and possibility to promote newly arrived migrants’ health in Sweden |
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Politicians’ views on societal responsibility and possibility to promote newly arrived migrants’ health in Sweden |
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Politicians’ views on societal responsibility and possibility to promote newly arrived migrants’ health in Sweden |
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politicians’ views on societal responsibility and possibility to promote newly arrived migrants’ health in sweden |
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