Extending the age limit of paediatric care for young people from refugee backgrounds
Sarah Cherian, Claire Breidahl, Avisha Hamilton, Kajal Hirani · 2026
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Cherian and colleagues present a 2026 viewpoint arguing that child health services should keep refugee-background teenagers for longer before handing them to adult care. Adolescence is already a risky handover point, and refugee-background youth carry extra barriers from flight and resettlement. The authors set out why a higher age limit for paediatric care fits this group's needs.
These teenagers often arrive with undiagnosed problems: infections, dental issues, vaccination gaps, nutrition shortfalls, and long-term childhood conditions, alongside trauma. Child services run broad checks joining physical, mental, and social needs, plus catch-up vaccines and culturally safe sexual health counsel. Adult services rarely match that joined-up, trauma-aware style. Extending the paediatric age limit, the authors argue, protects care at the very stage where these young people are most likely to fall between systems.
Catalog record
| CREATOR | Sarah Cherian, Claire Breidahl, Avisha Hamilton, Kajal Hirani |
|---|---|
| YEAR | 2026 |
| COLLECTION | PAPERS |
| FORMAT | TXT |
| FILE SIZE | 19 KB |
| LICENSE | https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0 |
| RIGHTS | CC BY |
| SOURCE | Europe PMC |