Examines how institutional uncertainty, trust, and transnational information practices intersect in health-related decision-making among immigrants in Nordic healthcare contexts.

Paper presented in Track 30, Session I, on 16 August 2024, 09:00–10:30, Oddi O-206; Ahmadinia also served as discussant for another paper.

Explores integration strategies supporting skilled immigrants’ labour-market participation and social inclusion in Europe.

Presents internal and external cues that motivate health action among people with asylum-seeking backgrounds in Norway and Finland.

Reports health-information needs, healthcare-service use, and system-navigation challenges among people with asylum-seeking backgrounds in Norway.

Presents evidence on unmet health-related information and healthcare-service needs among Persian-speaking minorities with asylum-seeking backgrounds in Finland.

Connects health-belief concepts to symptom interpretation, perceived susceptibility, and decisions to seek care among asylum seekers and refugees.

Examines individuals as information sources and health-information practices among two language minorities during the COVID-19 pandemic in Finland.

Presents doctoral research on health-information seeking among asylum seekers in Finland at the Nordic Network for PhD Students in Information Studies.