@article{ref1,
title=""No one seems ready to hear what I've seen:" mental health care for refugees and asylum seekers in Chile",
journal="Salud colectiva",
year="2020",
author="Carreño, Alejandra and Blukacz, Alice and Cabieses, Báltica and Jazanovich, Diego",
volume="16",
number="",
pages="e3035-e3035",
abstract="This article analyzes the results of a descriptive, qualitative study carried out in 2018 on the mental healthcare needs of Latin American refugees and asylum seekers in  Chile, through the perspectives of refugees and asylum applicants (n=8), healthcare  professionals responsible for delivery of care (n=4), and members of civil society  organisations involved in this area (n=2). Our findings indicate that despite  Chile's commitment to international treaties in this regard, little has been  achieved in safeguarding the right to access to mental health care, understood as  part of the universal right to health care access. This article documents barriers  to mental health care access for migrants applying for asylum and refugee status. Post-migration stress factors may also increase the risk of emotional disorders  within this group of people. Mental healthcare providers and teams are often not  equipped with the tools to deal with the psychological consequences arising from the  situations of violence and persecution associated with forced migration. Our study  discusses the need to strengthen the link between mental health care - as a  fundamental human right - and the right to international protection.<p /> <p>Language: es</p>",
language="es",
issn="1669-2381",
doi="10.18294/sc.2020.3035",
url="http://dx.doi.org/10.18294/sc.2020.3035"
}