Experiencing health: how to understand ethnic disparities in health among Danish youth: Marie Nørredam

Youth is a transitional life phase and research shows that wellbeing and health is easily challenged during youth. In Denmark, ethnic minority youth shows particular vulnerable (e.g. more stress, lower self-esteem, less physical activities). Socio-economic factors effects ethnic disparities in health but the connections between SES and ethnicity are ambiguous. Thus, we need insight into the social dynamics relating to wellbeing and health in daily life, including young people's own experiences of health. This paper explores how young people (age 11-18) understand and experience health and how ethnicity intersects these experiences, and how Danish school institutions affect these experiences. The paper offers empirical insight and analytical discussion to the field of youth ethnic disparities in health.