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Health Care for Refugees in Australia

   

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Running head: SOCIAL WORKSocial WorkName of Student:Name of University:Author’s Note:
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1SOCIAL WORKExecutive Summary:The aim of this particular literature review is to understand the conditions of the healthcare forthe refugees of Australian context and also the ways in which these pose issues in order to bebettered. It has been noticed that the refugees have to face acute mental health problems andproblems of trauma of which most significant are those of trauma and violation of human rightsalong with the migration experience. This literature review assess whether the health services areavailable for the refugees in Australia. There are several reasons because of which the refugeesface mental health issues which might be escaping for safety, post settlement stress, trauma ofresettlements and other problems which they have to experience at the time of the relocation(Mollica, 1994).
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2SOCIAL WORKTable of ContentsPart A:..............................................................................................................................................3Introduction:................................................................................................................................3Literature review:.........................................................................................................................3Gaps in health service provision:.................................................................................................5Health service responses:.............................................................................................................6Recommendations:......................................................................................................................8Part B:..............................................................................................................................................9Answer 1:.....................................................................................................................................9Answer 2:...................................................................................................................................10Answer 3:...................................................................................................................................10References:....................................................................................................................................12
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3SOCIAL WORKPart A:Introduction:A refugee is someone who due to a well-founded fear of being persecuted due to reasonsof race, religion, nationality, membership of a particular social group or political opinion isoutside the country of nationality and is unable to or owing to such fear is does not agree to availhimself of the protection of the country (Kirmaye et al., 2011). It is seen that refugees feel certaincircumstances of defencelessness, marginalisation, poverty in addition to high amount of stressor displacement which seriously impacts the health of the populations. It has been noticed thatthe refugees have to face acute mental health problems and problems of trauma of which mostsignificant are those of trauma and violation of human rights along with the migration experience(Silove, Austin & Steel, 2007). The aim of this research is to comprehend the conditions of thehealthcare for the refugees of Australian context and also the ways in which these pose issues inorder to be bettered. Literature review:There are several mental and physical traumas which the refugees have to face. Despitesuch conditions of the refugees and the high burdens of disease, the access to health care for therefugees is mostly restricted in the host countries with immense variation in the entitlements.There are several countries which differ in the principle of the medical health services which arebeing offered (Valtonen, 2016). There are also existent legal restrictions which hinder the accessof the refugees to the host countries with extreme variation in entitlements. The practical barriersto the health care services include inadequate information and also the awareness regarding the
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