What is it about?
Advocating for better mental health care and preventive social measures for refugees, asylum seekers and displaced people.
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Why is it important?
The world faces an enormous and growing need for safe haven for people displaced by war, genocide, and environmental disruptions brought on by climate change.
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This editorial introduction to a thematic issue of Transcultural Psychiatry, written with members of the World Psychiatric Association Section on Transcultural Psychiatry, describes innovative qualitative, quantitative and mixed-methods research identifying key issues in refugee adaptation in many receiving countries.
Laurence Kirmayer
McGill University
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This page is a summary of: Mental health for refugees, asylum seekers and displaced persons: A call for a humanitarian agenda, Transcultural Psychiatry, December 2017, SAGE Publications,
DOI: 10.1177/1363461517747095.
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