Mental health, migration and the megacity

Migration and mental health.

OBJECTIVE Migration and its accompanying stressors affect migrating individuals and their families. The process of migration is not simple or straightforward. The aim of this review is to distil existing information on how migration influences individuals' mental state and how it determines help seeking as well as pathways to care. METHOD The review relies on published studies in both MEDLINE...

Mental Disorders in Megacities: Findings from the São Paulo Megacity Mental Health Survey, Brazil

BACKGROUND World population growth is projected to be concentrated in megacities, with increases in social inequality and urbanization-associated stress. São Paulo Metropolitan Area (SPMA) provides a forewarning of the burden of mental disorders in urban settings in developing world. The aim of this study is to estimate prevalence, severity, and treatment of recently active DSM-IV mental disord...

Migration, mental health, and human rights.

The three themes of this special issue of the International Journal of Law and Psychiatry—migration, mental health, and human rights—draw together matters that are intuitively linked. The capacity to migrate and experiences of migration are powerfully affected by the economic, social, and political circumstances of the migrant, specifically, by the extent to which the migrant’s human rights are...

Migration, Stress and Mental Ill Health Migration, Stress and Mental Ill Health Post-migration Factors and Experiences in the Swedish Context

Migration mental health issues in Europe

The migrations of people of many different cultural, racial and ethnic backgrounds have been a major issue of concern in Greece the last three decades. Since 1989 Greece has been transformed into a host country for immigrants and refugees. The collapse of the former socialist regimes of Eastern Europe and the slow but steady growth of Greek economy, in combination with its location, turned Gree...