A nursing call to action to support the health of migrants and refugees

The theme for World Refugee Day 2021 was ‘together we heal, learn and shine’ (United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees, 2021). This World Refugee Day stressed the importance of expanding refugees’ access to health services. The World Health Organization (WHO) Global Action Plan on Promoting the...

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Published in:Journal of advanced nursing 2021-12, Vol.77 (12), p.e41-e43
Main Authors: Commodore‐Mensah, Yvonne, Shaw, Barbara, Ford, Miriam
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Advocacy
Equity
Health care access
Health Services Accessibility
Humans
Migrants
Nurses
Public health
Refugees
Social justice
Transients and Migrants
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Summary:The theme for World Refugee Day 2021 was ‘together we heal, learn and shine’ (United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees, 2021). This World Refugee Day stressed the importance of expanding refugees’ access to health services. The World Health Organization (WHO) Global Action Plan on Promoting the Health of Refugees and Migrants, 2019–2023 has created a ‘framework of priorities and guiding principles…to promote the health of refugees and migrants’ (World Health Organization, 2019). The Action Plan includes policies that promote short- and long-term public health interventions and advocates for integrating migrant and refugee health into global, regional and country agendas and advancing refugee-sensitive and migrant-sensitive health policies. As nurses, we respond to World Refugee Day and National Immigrant Heritage Month with a call to action focusing on clinical care, advocacy, equity and justice.
ISSN:0309-2402
1365-2648
DOI:10.1111/jan.14970