Access to health services among culturally and linguistically diverse populations in the Australian universal health care system: issues and challenges

RB Khatri, Y Assefa - BMC public health, 2022 - Springer
Background About half of first-or second-generation Australians are born overseas, and one-
in-five speak English as their second language at home which often are referred to as …

Afghan mental health and psychosocial well-being: thematic review of four decades of research and interventions

Q Alemi, C Panter-Brick, S Oriya, M Ahmady… - BJPsych …, 2023 - cambridge.org
Background Four decades of war, political upheaval, economic deprivation and forced
displacement have profoundly affected both in-country and refugee Afghan populations …

Predisplacement abuse and postdisplacement factors associated with mental health symptoms after forced migration among Rohingya refugees in Bangladesh

A Hossain, RBA Baten, ZZ Sultana, T Rahman… - JAMA network …, 2021 - jamanetwork.com
Importance At the end of August 2017, violence and persecution in Myanmar's Rakhine state
forced nearly 1 million Rohingyas to flee to Bangladesh for their lives and seek shelter …

Language proficiency and mental disorders among migrants: A systematic review

C Montemitro, G D'Andrea, F Cesa, G Martinotti… - European …, 2021 - cambridge.org
BackgroundIn this review, we aimed to evaluate the association between language
proficiency (LP) and the prevalence and severity of mental disorders in migrants …

Professional mental health help-seeking amongst Afghan and Iraqi refugees in Australia: Understanding predictors five years post resettlement

AM Tomasi, S Slewa-Younan, R Narchal… - International journal of …, 2022 - mdpi.com
The current longitudinal study sought to identify predictors of professional help seeking for
mental health problems amongst Afghan and Iraqi refugees five years post-settlement …

Exploring the impact of family separation on refugee mental health: A systematic review and Meta-narrative analysis

O Ali-Naqvi, TA Alburak, K Selvan, H Abdelmeguid… - Psychiatric …, 2023 - Springer
The refugee crisis is spreading rapidly, with the number of global refugees this decade
doubling in comparison to the last, leading to further concern regarding asylum policies and …

Prevalence of posttraumatic stress disorder and associated factors among displaced people in Africa: a systematic review and meta-analysis

F Andualem, M Melkam, GM Takelle, G Nakie… - Frontiers in …, 2024 - frontiersin.org
Background The number of people who have been displaced from their homes due to
violence, conflict, and natural disasters. The displaced persons are vulnerable to PTSD; …

Individuals of refugee background resettled in regional and rural Australia: A systematic review of mental health research

C Hawkes, K Norris, J Joyce… - Australian Journal of Rural …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Abstract Introduction The Australian Government aims to increase the number of individuals
on humanitarian resettlement visas allocated to regional locations to 50% by the year 2022 …

Resettlement stressors for women of refugee background resettled in regional Australia

C Hawkes, K Norris, J Joyce, D Paton - International journal of …, 2021 - mdpi.com
Women of Refugee Background (WoRB) have been repeatedly identified as an extremely
vulnerable population. Within an Australian context, WoRB are increasingly resettled to non …

A brief transdiagnostic psychological intervention for Afghan asylum seekers and refugees in Austria: a randomized controlled trial

M Knefel, V Kantor, D Weindl… - European Journal of …, 2022 - Taylor & Francis
Background: Afghan refugees often face hardship and traumatic experiences before, during,
and after migration and frequently suffer from mental health burdens. Evidence based …