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Mental Healthcare Policy for Refugees in Canada

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Refuge and Resilience

Part of the book series: International Perspectives on Migration ((IPMI,volume 7))

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Existing services do not meet the needs of refugees with physical or psychological difficulties. To promote health and to prevent the development of mental and physical illness in the refugee population there is a need for three areas of policy action: (1) Public policy that minimizes the impact of social risk factors for physical and mental illness; (2) Equitable access to a full range of health, social care and legal services that are capable of delivering appropriate and high quality care; and (3) Public bodies that organize to fulfill their duties under national and international law.

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  1. Department of Psychiatry and Centre for Addiction and Mental Health, University of Toronto, Toronto, Canada

    Kwame J. McKenzie & Andrew Tuck

  2. Health Equity Unit, Centre for Addiction and Mental Health, Toronto, Canada

    Branka Agic

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  1. Center on Immigration and Justice, Vera Institute of Justice, New York, New York, USA

    Laura Simich

  2. Department of Psychiatry Equity, Gender and Populations Division, University of Toronto Mount Sinai Hospital, Toronto, Ontario, Canada

    Lisa Andermann

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McKenzie, K., Tuck, A., Agic, B. (2014). Mental Healthcare Policy for Refugees in Canada. In: Simich, L., Andermann, L. (eds) Refuge and Resilience. International Perspectives on Migration, vol 7. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-007-7923-5_12

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