Resettling into a foreign environment can be a long, difficult, and stressful exercise under the best of circumstances. When the parties involved are refugees and humanitarian entrants from far across the globe and their destination is relatively new to the hosting process, the challenges are even more pronounced. The nature of these challenges has become more apparent as the Australian Government furthers its efforts to encourage migrants and refugees to settle in regional areas.
This report examines how effective these and other initiatives have been in improving the capacity of health care services in regional areas. It focuses on two pilot programs instituted in the regional centres of Ballarat and Shepparton with each representing a comparative study of the implications of direct refugee settlement upon regional health services.
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Published
June 2011