Health care access for rural youth on equal terms?
This research will lay the foundation for improving youth health services in rural areas.
Youth health services in rural areas can be improved by:
1. mapping youth access to health care services in the rural municipalities of northern Sweden,
2. critically evaluating strategies used to enhance access according to needs,
3. proposing further actions through a participatory process.
The project emerges from both Swedish and international concerns about health status and health care access of rural youth, and the relatively low use of youth clinics in Sweden’s rural north (just 12 of the 35 rural municipalities have youth clinics).
Title of Project
Health care access for rural youth on equal terms? Identifying needs and proposing actions using mixed-methods research
Project Period
01/01/2017 - 12/31/2019
Subject areas
Public health science
Head of research
Isabel Goicolea, Department of Public Health and Clinical Medicine
