Table 2.
Policy frameworks relevant to refugee mental health.
| WHO Mental Health Action Plan for 2013–2030 (14) |
| Objective 1: Strengthen effective leadership and governance for mental health |
| • Target 1.1: 80% of countries will have developed or updated their policies/plans for mental health • Target 1.2: 50% of countries will have developed or updated their laws for mental health |
| Objective 2: Provide comprehensive, integrated mental health, and social care services in community-based settings |
| • Target 2: Service coverage for severe mental disorders will have increased by 20% |
| Objective 3: Implement strategies for promotion and prevention in mental health |
| • Target 3.1: 80% of countries will have at least two national promotion and prevention programs • Target 3.2: Rate of suicide will be reduced by 10% |
| Objective 4: Strengthen information systems, evidence, and research for mental health |
| Target 4: 80% of countries will routinely collect and report mental health indicators every 2 years |
| UN 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development (15) |
| Goal 3: Ensure healthy lives and promote well-being for all at all ages |
| • Target 3.4: By 2030, reduce by one third premature mortality from non-communicable diseases through prevention and treatment and promote mental health and well-being • Indicator 3.4.2: Suicide mortality rate |
| Goal 10: Reduce inequality within and among countries |
| • Target 10.7: Facilitate orderly, safe and responsible migration and mobility of people, including through implementation of planned and well-managed migration policies • Indicator 10.7.2: Countries that have implemented well-managed migration policies |
| UN Global Compact for Safe, Orderly and Regular Migration (16) |
| Objective 15: Provide access to basic services for migrants |
| UN Global Compact on Refugees (17) |
| Area 2.3: Expand health systems to facilitate access by refugees |
| WHO Promoting the Health of Refugees and Migrants: Draft Global Action Plan, 2019–2023 (18) |
| Priority 1. Promote the health of refugees and migrants through a mix of public health interventions |
| Priority 2. Promote continuity and quality of essential health care |
| Priority 3. Advocate the mainstreaming of refugee and migrant health into global, regional and country agendas |
| Priority 4. Enhance capacity to tackle the social determinants of health and accelerate progress toward SDGs |
| Priority 5. Strengthen health monitoring and health information systems |
| Priority 6. Support measures to improve evidence-based health communication and counter misperceptions about migrant and refugee health |