Migrant Health

Dec 18, 20193 min read

Access to NHS Social Prescribing Programmes for People with a Language Barrier

#socialprescribing #NHS #migrants #healthcare #accessibility #englishsecondlanguage Social prescribing is an influential tool in...

Aug 4, 20193 min read

Migrant Barriers to Healthcare

Key points Migrants’ access to healthcare is restricted by the ‘hostile environment’ policy Migrants with health complications abstain...

Aug 2, 20183 min read

Immigration Detention and Migrant Health in the UK

Key points Immigration detention in the UK is one of the largest in Europe Some UK detention centres have very poor conditions with...

Jul 12, 20183 min read

Mental Health of Refugees in the UK: Providing a safe space for children, adults and the elderly

Key points The increase in the number of refugees in recent years has been unprecedented According to the UNHCR 87% of refugees have...

Jun 13, 20183 min read

Forced Migration and the Right to Health

“Everyone has the right to a standard of living adequate for the health and well-being of himself and of his family...” Article 25, UN...

Sep 1, 20174 min read

How does international migration influence individual and population health?

Concerns regarding the impact of international migration have featured prominently in recent public and political discourse. The outcome...

Aug 30, 20164 min read

Migrant mothers and health tourism in the UK

With the EU referendum debates ongoing and an increase in the public concern for the refugee crisis, there has been a significant surge...

May 2, 20163 min read

Migrant Crisis: Risk Factors for Women’s Mental Health

In a one month period in February 2016 more than 43,000 refugees arrived into Greece alone. The mass exodus of peoples from the Middle...

Mar 31, 20163 min read

Mental Health of Migrants in Immigration Detention

Immigration detention is the practice of holding migrants for periods of time, either during the processing of their application for UK...