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Mental Illness and Migrants in Europe

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Mental Health, Mental Illness and Migration

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We examine mental health among South Asians living in the UK, framed within a multilevel conceptual model of health reflecting an interplay of biological and environmental risks over the course of life. We highlight epidemiological differences in the occurrence of different psychiatric disorders, and consider the role of socio-cultural patterns of help-seeking behavior. Ultimately, epidemiological approaches, while vital for planning services, identifying unmet population need, and evaluating the effectiveness of services and interventions, often risk conflating and obscuring important historical, cultural, and gendered influences on mental health in this particular diaspora, and others.

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  1. Minkowska Centre, The World Association of Social Psychiatry (WASP), Paris, France

    Rachid Bennegadi

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  1. Institute of Psychiatry King's College London, London, UK

    Dinesh Bhugra

  2. Department of Psychiatry, Ibn Rushd University Psychiatric Centre, Casablanca, Morocco

    Driss Moussaoui

  3. ASL Provinciale di Foggia, Foggia, Napoli, Italy

    Antonio Ventriglio

  4. School of Psychology, University of East London, London, UK

    Rachel Tribe

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Bennegadi, R. (2018). Mental Illness and Migrants in Europe. In: Bhugra, D., Moussaoui, D., Ventriglio, A., Tribe, R. (eds) Mental Health, Mental Illness and Migration. Mental Health and Illness Worldwide. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-10-0750-7_5-1

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