On World Mental Health Day, the World Health Organization (WHO) is releasing a new report entitled Mental health of refugees and migrants: risk and protective factors and access to care, outlining the latest global evidence on main factors influencing the mental health of refugees and migrants and their access to care. This is fifth report of the Global evidence review on health and migration (GEHM).Around 1 in 8 people globally live with a mental health condition. Refugees and migrants are...| www.who.int
Having explored how a World War II population’s trauma narratives are experienced by subsequent generations for her dissertation, Jessica (Jesse) Aldrich Strassman, MSW, LCSW, DSW, is committed to studying expulsion, flight, and migration. As a new graduate of SP2's DSW Program, she continued pursuing her research interests this summer in Greece.| School of Social Policy & Practice
Migration is one of the central moral and governance issues of our time. Conflict, war, violence, natural disasters and a host of other seemingly unstoppable factors have for the whole of human history catalyzed the mass movement and mass displacement of people and particularly children across the world. Over the past decade alone, war, hunger and poverty have displaced more people than at any intervening time since WWII, challenging social, economic and political frameworks. As people move f...| FXB Center
