Renard, Florence
[UCL]
Deccache, Alain
[UCL]
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.
Bibliographic reference |
Renard, Florence ; Deccache, Alain. La santé physique, mentale et les comportements de santé des adolescents immigrants de première génération.. In: Archives de pédiatrie : organe officiel de la Sociéte française de pédiatrie, Vol. 14, no. 8, p. 1020-7 (2007) |
Permanent URL |
http://hdl.handle.net/2078.1/10979 |