Adolescent Health Survey: Immigration

Faculty Of Medicine Dept: "Just like immigrants and refugees ... this is an extremely vulnerable group," said the study's author Sabrina Wong, a nursing professor who also conducts policy research in the faculty of medicine, in a telephone interview Tuesday. "Children, no matter where they come from, have rights and we have a duty as a society to insure their health and well-being.", according to Vancouver Sun. Using information collected in the 2003 British Columbia Adolescent Health Survey, Wong and fellow researchers sifted through responses from 73 per cent of Grade 7 to 12 students in B.C. They focused on responses from about 3,000 students who marked East Asian -- "Chinese, Japanese, Korean, etc." -- as their ethnic background and almost a quarter of female high school students from Asia who are living in B.C. without their parents say they've been sexually abused, according to a University of B.C. study published Tuesday. The survey responses don't indicate when the abuse occurred. As reported in the news.
@t vulnerable group, high school students