Other resources in refugee health

World report on the health of refugees and migrants 

World report on the health of refugees and migrants outlines current and future opportunities and challenges and provides several strategies to improve the health and well-being of refugees and migrants. It is an advocacy tool for national and international policy-makers involved in health and migration.

 

 

NSW Refugee Health Plan

(PDF, 6.3MB)

 

 

 

 

Cohort Profile: Building a New Life in Australia (BNLA): the longitudinal study of humanitarian migrants 

International Journal of Epidemiology, Volume 47, Issue 1, February 2018, Pages 20–20h

 

 

 

 

• The UN Refugee Agency (UNHCR) Mastery Glossary
• UNHCR YouTube video: How Many People Are Displaced Around the World?
• Australia’s Offshore Humanitarian Program 2022-23 (homeaffairs.gov.au) (PDF, 759kB)
• Department of Home Affairs 2024, Medical examination for an Australian visa (PDF, 354kB)
• First report gives new insight into the health of refugees and humanitarian entrants in Australia - Australian Institute of Health and Welfare (aihw.gov.au)
• Medicare Ineligible Asylum Seekers - Provision of Specified Public Health Services (nsw.gov.au) (PDF, 680kB)
• Free Public Health Care for People fleeing the Israel Gaza Conflict (PDF, 279kB)
• SWSLHD - NSW Refugee Health Service
• Transcultural Mental Health Centre – Services and Programs 
• TMHC’s Refugee Mental Health Program
• NSW Multicultural Health Communication Services – CALD Assist Tool and Appointment Translation Tool
• STARTTS

Other projects

Victorian Refugee Health Network

• Perinatal Mental Health Co-design Project
• Diverse Communities Mental Health and Wellbeing Project
• Refugee Women’s Health Community Consultation Project
• The Program for Refugee Immunisation, Monitoring and Education (PRIME)

Forcibly Displaced People Network

• ‘Inhabiting Two Worlds At Once’: Report on the experiences of LGBTIQA+ settlement in Australia

Refugee Council of Australia (RCOA)

• Global Snapshot of Resettlement and Complementary Pathways

NSW Service for the Treatment and Rehabilitation or Torture and Trauma Survivors (STARTTS)

• Developing a New Refugee Assessment Tool: The Screening of Refugees Self-Report (ScoRe-SR)

Multicultural Centre For Women's Health

• Building Bridges: Promoting Mental Health and Wellbeing for Migrant and Refugee Women

Monash University

• The OPTIMISE project: Collaborative improvement of primary health care delivery to the Australian refugee community
• A pilot of a randomised controlled trial intervention designed to improve the delivery of quality primary health care for refugees in Australia
• Afghan Refugee and Asylum Seeker Youth Mental Health Engagement

University of New South Wales 

• Improving primary care delivery to refugees in Australia

NSW Health

• Refugee Health Flexible Funding Pool 2021-22 to 2022-23