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Minority status and perceived health: a comparative study of Finnish- and Swedish-speaking schoolchildren in Finland

Sakari B. Suominen

Department of Public Health, University of Turku

Raili S. Välimaa

Department of Health Sciences, University of Jyväskylä, Department of Economics and Statistics, Åbo Akademi University, Finland

Jorma A. Tynjälä

Department of Health Sciences, University of Jyväskylä, Department of Economics and Statistics, Åbo Akademi University, Finland

Lasse K. Kannas

Department of Health Sciences, University of Jyväskylä, Department of Economics and Statistics, Åbo Akademi University, Finland

Results of earlier studies suggest that the health of the Swedish-speaking minority in Finland is better than that of the sociodemographically similar Finnish-speaking population. The causes of differences are unknown. The main aim of the study referred was to investigate whether differences in perceived health according to linguistic group were present in a nation-wide representative sample (n=5,230) of schoolchildren aged 11, 13 and 15 years. A further aim was to determine whether differences could be attributed to socioeconomic background, social relationships or health behaviour. The study is part of the international Health Behaviour in School-aged children (HBSC) survey. The perceived health of Swedish-speaking children (n=1,699) proved to be better than that of Finnish-speaking children (n=3,531). In multivariate logistic regression models the differences could not be attributed to underlying associations with any variable studied. The health advantage of Swedish-speaking children essentially could not be related to known risk factors.

Key Words: adolescents • ethnic minority • linguistic group • perceived health • schoolchildren.

Scandinavian Journal of Public Health, Vol. 28, No. 3, 179-187 (2000)
DOI: 10.1177/14034948000280030601
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