Social & Environmental Determinants: Mental Health of Migrants

This essay examines the environmental and social determinants that contribute to the poorer mental health outcomes experienced by refugees and migrants, particularly within the Australian context. It highlights that factors such as safety, social connections, education, and employment are critical social determinants of health and integration. These factors are often challenged in non-metropolitan resettlement settings, impacting the well-being of individuals from refugee and migrant backgrounds. The essay also notes that refugee children and young people are particularly vulnerable due to pre-migration trauma and disrupted family functioning, increasing their risk of mental health and developmental issues. The study concludes that addressing these social determinants is essential for improving the mental health and overall integration of refugees and migrants.

Environmental and social determinants
lead to poorer mental health of refugee
and migrants

Table of Content.
INTRODUCTION...........................................................................................................................1
MAIN BODY...................................................................................................................................1
CONCLUSION................................................................................................................................1
REFERENCES................................................................................................................................2

INTRODUCTION
Across globe, there are recently about 70 million forcibly displaced the people, consisting
approximately about 25 million refugees as well as over the 4 million asylum seekers. Asylum
and refugees seekers can flee their nation only because of persecution, violence/war as well as
several are generally exposed to the significant trauma and torture. These such pre- as well as
post migration components consisting the difficulties settling within the new country such as
acquiring a new language, making social relations, securing the employment, generally means
that refugee status is mainly linked reduced well-being results, mainly the mental well-being.
There is a significant requirement to unpack the complex post-resettlement paths that are
generally contributing to such disparities. In this essay, there is a discussion about the various
social as well as environmental determinants that can make a negative influence over the mental
well-being of both migrants and refugees within Australia. In this, the experience of the social
determinants of health for the people from refugee or migrant backgrounds are generally studied,
mainly within the non-metropolitan resettlement settings (Buchanan et. al., 2018).
MAIN BODY
The social determinants of well-being are generally the conditions in which the people
are born, grow, work, live as well as age that are specifically shaped by the dispersion of power,
money as well as the resources at local, national as well as a global level. The determinants can
be reasoned to be the cause of the cause of the well-being disparities. In context with Dahlgren
and Whitehead, the influential models can generally highlights the relevant conditions at several
levels which can affect the well-being-individual components such as sex, age, as well as a
person's lifestyle elements like smoking or exercise, the working and living conditions such as
work environment, education, housing and many other cultural, or environmental conditions. For
the people from the refugee backgrounds in the resettlement contexts, some of these such
conditions of the life influences not over the well-being results, but also the experience of
settlement with combination of an inbuilt part of that such process. In this, safety is generally the
key of social determinants of the well-being as well as also an essential component of the
combination for the refugee and migrants settling within a new area, mainly for those with
refugee backgrounds most of them have experienced a extreme trauma and torture as well as the
long periods of interruption earlier reaching. Within Australia, it was specifically considered to
be a good place to grow the children as well as offered a strong sense of safety for the people that
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promoted the well-being and health as well. Similarly, the social relations within communities
and the other communities in Australia, mainly via the religious relationships, offered the
essential emotional as well as practical encouragement and were generally protective of the well-
being and necessary in improving a new life, reflecting a wide knowledge over the necessity of
strong social ties for the well-being and health as well (Caidi et. al., 2020).
CONCLUSION
From the above discussion, it is analysed that the social determinants of health and
integration are directly linked via the components such as education, employment, social
connections, housing and many more. The findings significantly recommends that the social
determinants of health and however, the key factors of combination, can be challenged within the
local settings for the people from migrant as well as refugee backgrounds, partially as an
outcome of understanding policies. The young people and children from the refugee background
are more likely to be exposed towards specific trauma earlier to their arrival in the Australia as
well as involve an addictive risk for the mental well-being and the developmental concerns via
the parent mental disease, the periods of separation, the disrupted family functioning and many
more.
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REFERENCES
Books and Journals:
Buchanan, Z. E., Abu-Rayya, H. M., Kashima, E., Paxton, S. J., & Sam, D. L. (2018). Perceived
discrimination, language proficiencies, and adaptation: Comparisons between refugee
and non-refugee immigrant youth in Australia. International journal of intercultural
relations, 63, 105-112.
Caidi, N., Du, J. T., Li, L., Shen, J. M., & Sun, Q. (2020). Immigrating after 60: Information
experiences of older Chinese migrants to Australia and Canada. Information Processing
& Management, 57(3), 102111.
Kashyap, S., Page, A. C., & Joscelyne, A. (2019). Post-migration treatment targets associated
with reductions in depression and PTSD among survivors of torture seeking asylum in
the USA. Psychiatry research, 271, 565-572.
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