Health needs of asylum seekers and refugees

doi:10.1136/bmj.323.7306.229/a

BMJ 2001;323:229 ( 28 July )

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EDITOR $---$ Burnett and Peel described the social and family background regarding asylum seekers and refugees in Britain. ¹ ² Unfortunately their articles make many confusing generalisationsand have several inaccuracies regarding mentalhealth.

Burnett and Peel say that the most therapeutic event for a child can be to become part of the local school community.²Everybody would agree that schools can promote children's psychologicaldevelopment, but it is important to bear in mind the higher rateof psychiatric disorder in refugee children than in their peers.Even among refugee children who had largely not been exposed towar the rate of psychiatric disorder was found to be almost twiceas high as among peers of the same age.³ It is likely to beeven higher among those who have been exposed to war and experiencedrecent flight and settlement. Our experience of work in innerLondon schools is that many refugee . . . [Full text of this article]

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