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"This Group is Like a Home to Me:" understandings of health of LGBTQ refugees in a Swedish health-related integration intervention: a qualitative study.

Britta PeltersKrister HerttingCatrine KosteniusEva-Carin Lindgren
Published in: BMC public health (2022)
For our participants, belonging, recognition, and security/safety are conceptual elements of understanding health, not its social determinants. Thus, these understandings emphasize relational and existential meanings of health (theoretical implication). As for practical implications, the understandings of health were connected to being either inside or outside the Newcomers group and a new society, depending on whether LGBTQ refugees comply with social requirements. As a significant actor that is representative of the cultural majority and a facilitator of LGBTQ refugees' resettlement process, RFSL provides LGBTQ refugees with crucial orientations for becoming a "good migrant" and a "good LGBTQ person," yet a "bad bio-citizen." Generally, organizers of interventions may enhance the effectiveness of their interventions when relational, existential, and biomedical understandings of health are all incorporated.
Keyphrases
  • healthcare
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  • mental health
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  • human health
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