Refugees, the asylum system and mental healthcare in Ireland

The number of people seeking refugee status in Ireland is increasing year on year and the burden of mental illness experienced by refugees and asylum seekers is high. The College of Psychiatrists of Ireland has recommended the establishment of a number of specialist refugee mental health teams. In t...

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Autores principales: O’Connell, Molly, Duffy, Richard, Crumlish, Niall
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: The Royal College of Psychiatrists 2016
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Thematic Paper
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5619618/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/29093895
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description The number of people seeking refugee status in Ireland is increasing year on year and the burden of mental illness experienced by refugees and asylum seekers is high. The College of Psychiatrists of Ireland has recommended the establishment of a number of specialist refugee mental health teams. In this paper we discuss the Irish asylum system, the Irish evidence regarding mental illness in this population, and current health service policy regarding refugee mental health. We propose a model of specialist refugee mental healthcare delivery.
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spelling pubmed-56196182017-11-01 Refugees, the asylum system and mental healthcare in Ireland O’Connell, Molly Duffy, Richard Crumlish, Niall BJPsych Int Thematic Paper The number of people seeking refugee status in Ireland is increasing year on year and the burden of mental illness experienced by refugees and asylum seekers is high. The College of Psychiatrists of Ireland has recommended the establishment of a number of specialist refugee mental health teams. In this paper we discuss the Irish asylum system, the Irish evidence regarding mental illness in this population, and current health service policy regarding refugee mental health. We propose a model of specialist refugee mental healthcare delivery. The Royal College of Psychiatrists 2016-05-01 /pmc/articles/PMC5619618/ /pubmed/29093895 Text en © 2016 The Royal College of Psychiatrists http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/ This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Non-Commercial, No Derivatives (CC BY-NC-ND) license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/).
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