Haute Ecole de Santé de Fribourg

Comment offrir une meilleure prise en soins aux réfugiés de plus de 18 ans dès leur arrivée dans le pays d'accueil ?

Bertherin, Cassandre ; Hanife, Iseni ; Scrima, Katia (Dir.)

Mémoire de bachelor : Haute Ecole de Santé de Fribourg, 2018.

En mai 2018, 64’208 demandes d’asile ont été déposées en Suisse. Dues aux expériences traumatisantes et à l'accumulation d'évènements perturbants, les réfugiés nécessitent des prises en charge spécifiques.

Università della Svizzera italiana

Linking health literacy and health disparities : conceptual implications and empirical results

Sarah, Mantwill ; Schulz, Peter (Dir.)

Thèse de doctorat : Università della Svizzera italiana, 2015 ; COM2015004.

Health literacy, defined as “(…) the degree to which individuals have the capacity to obtain, process and understand basic health information and services needed to make appropriate health decisions.” (IOM, 2004), has been found to be an important concept in explaining differences in health. Limited health literacy has been linked, amongst others, to worse general health (Wolf,...

Università della Svizzera italiana

Ethnic concentration, cultural identity and immigrant self-employment in Switzerland

Guerra, Giuliano ; Patuelli, Roberto ; Maggi, Rico

Immigrant self-employment rates vary considerably across regions in Switzerland. Business ownership seems to provide an alternative to wage labour, where immigrants have to face structural barriers such as the limited knowledge of the local language, or difficulties in fruitfully making use of their own human capital. Despite the historically high unemployment rates with respect to natives,...