The findings advocate for understanding migrant mental health as a public health issue rather than solely a clinical one, suggesting that treatment-focused policies are insufficient without addressing

The gap

Consensus across the literature

Supporting evidence — 4 representative gaps

• Improving access to and engagement with mental health services among young people from refugee backgrounds: service user and provider perspectives (2017) · doi

  Limited research has been conducted worldwide on the experiences that children and young people from refugee backgrounds have with mental health services, despite evidence that they have significant vulnerability to the development of mental health problems and to suicidal behaviour and that those with mental ill-health typically underutilise services.

  Keywords: mental health services limited conducted worldwide experiences children young people refugee backgrounds despite evidence significant
• Promoting male refugees’ mental health after they have been granted leave to remain (refugee status) (2016) · doi

  There is existing evidence that suggests that refugees’ mental health is often impaired by pre-migratory stress, by their experience of being asylum seekers and also by their resettlement adversities; however, little is known about the specific mental health issues of male refugees.

  Keywords: refugees mental health there existing evidence suggests often impaired migratory stress experience asylum seekers resettlement
• Transitioning from child to adult mental health services: what role for social services? Insights from a European survey (2020) · doi

  Purpose Young people transitioning from child to adult mental health services are frequently also known to social services, but the role of such services in this study and their interplay with mental healthcare system lacks evidence in the European panorama.

  Keywords: services mental purpose young people transitioning child adult health frequently known social role interplay healthcare
• Social Determinants of Mental Health among Migrants, Refugees, and Displaced Populations: A Systematic Literature Review (2026) · doi

  The findings advocate for understanding migrant mental health as a public health issue rather than solely a clinical one, suggesting that treatment-focused policies are insufficient without addressing broader socio-economic vulnerabilities.

  Keywords: health advocate understanding migrant mental public issue rather solely clinical suggesting treatment focused policies insufficient