Stockholm county councils health advisers in collaboration with the center of civic orientation Haibe Hussein

In collaboration with the The Center for Civic Orientation and as a part of the civic(social) orientation program, Stockholm County Council's health advisers offer all newly arrived immigrant participants of the program in Stockholm region an additional 12 hours long introduction to health promotional dialogue with the purpose of getting enhanced health impact. The collaboration between the health advisers and the Center for Civic orientation is strategic way of reaching all newly arrived refugees from 26 municipalities Stockholm region with essential health information. Stockholm County Councils Health advisers with in-depth knowledge and experience in health communications conduct a mother-tongue based group-dialogue sessions with the newly arrived refugees about range of topics including the impact of immigration on health and living habits. An external evaluation of the intervention has shown that the newly arrived refugees gained a new knowledge about health and had a new and improved healthy habits as a result a result of the group dialogue sessions. Collaboration between different authorities and organisations is thus essential to meet the complex needs of newly arrived refugees. The Collaboration is an innovative approach of giving needs based health information and knowledge to immigrants and refugee that would not have been possible otherwise. Establishing and developing and improving this type of multi-sectoral collaboration would be beneficial to refugees in whole of Sweden.

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