{"id":38791,"date":"2026-06-15T08:00:00","date_gmt":"2026-06-15T06:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/swissmig.unine.ch\/?p=38791"},"modified":"2026-06-04T16:30:16","modified_gmt":"2026-06-04T14:30:16","slug":"asylum-seekers-and-refugees-access-to-oral-health-care-services-in-switzerland-a-qualitative-study","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/swissmig.unine.ch\/?p=38791","title":{"rendered":"Asylum seekers and refugees\u2019 access to oral health care services in Switzerland: a qualitative study"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"wp-block-group\"><div class=\"wp-block-group__inner-container is-layout-constrained wp-block-group-is-layout-constrained\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-group is-vertical is-layout-flex wp-container-core-group-is-layout-4fc3f8e1 wp-block-group-is-layout-flex\">\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Author(s): Lujain Alchalabi, Nicole Probst-Hensch, Nicola Ursula Zitzmann, Sonja Merten <\/h3>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Source: <a href=\"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1186\/s12939-025-02711-z\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1186\/s12939-025-02711-z<\/a><\/h3>\n<\/div>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n<!--more-->\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Abstract<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Asylum seekers and refugees in Switzerland face major barriers to oral health care services, often limited to urgent treatments like tooth extractions. Access depends largely on legal status, canton of residence and duration in the country, whereby it is largely unclear for those affected as to which treatments are actually covered. Sixteen interviews and three in-clinic observations were conducted with Arabic-speaking asylum seekers and refugees in Basel-Stadt and Basel-Landschaft, two German-speaking Swiss cantons.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Keywords<\/strong>: Oral health, Asylum seekers, Refugees, Dental care, Healthcare access, Barriers<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Author(s): Lujain Alchalabi, Nicole Probst-Hensch, Nicola Ursula Zitzmann, Sonja Merten&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_kadence_starter_templates_imported_post":false,"_kad_post_transparent":"","_kad_post_title":"","_kad_post_layout":"","_kad_post_sidebar_id":"","_kad_post_content_style":"","_kad_post_vertical_padding":"","_kad_post_feature":"","_kad_post_feature_position":"","_kad_post_header":false,"_kad_post_footer":false,"_kad_post_classname":"","_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[59],"tags":[306,556,7,50,273,9,157,350,154,236],"class_list":["post-38791","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-health","tag-306","tag-access-to-health-care","tag-article","tag-asylum-seekers","tag-cantons","tag-english-language","tag-health-care","tag-health-inequalities","tag-interviews","tag-language-barriers"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/swissmig.unine.ch\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38791","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/swissmig.unine.ch\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/swissmig.unine.ch\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swissmig.unine.ch\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swissmig.unine.ch\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=38791"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/swissmig.unine.ch\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38791\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":38792,"href":"https:\/\/swissmig.unine.ch\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38791\/revisions\/38792"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/swissmig.unine.ch\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=38791"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swissmig.unine.ch\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=38791"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swissmig.unine.ch\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=38791"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}