[Caring for unaccompanied minors: an experience from Lausanne].
Medical treatment of an unaccompanied minor is made more complicated firstly by its connections with the politics of immigration and secondly by the difficulty in gaining recognition of the priority of the minor's interests. Enabling healthcare teams to travel and meet these particularly vulnerable youths makes medical care more accessible to them and facilitates an optimal bio-psycho-social treatment. For most of these adolescents it is their lack of plans for the future which remains the major obstacle to their development and mental and physical health.
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Unite multidisciplinaire de santé des adolescents, CHUV, 1011 Lausanne. sarah.depallens-villanueva@chuv.ch
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D000293:Adolescent; D016497:Adolescent Health Services; D006301:Health Services Needs and Demand; D006801:Humans; D033242:Minors / Q000331:legislation & jurisprudence; D012036:Refugees; D013557:Switzerland; D035862:Vulnerable Populations