Table 4.

General Recommendations.

Research Priorities
Enhance data collection
Track mental health correlates and outcomes throughout the migration process, collecting disaggregated data on gender, age, and family status
Develop culturally specific mental health instruments
Adapt assessment measures to refugee populations, including culturally specific idioms of distress and mental disorder
Expand research on therapeutic interventions
Research mental health interventions designed for forcibly displaced populations, with a focus on women and children
Capacity Building and Health Systems Strengthening
Increase funding from regional and international donors
Target underfunded mental health services for refugee populations to promote equitable access across destination countries
Improve social and economic conditions
Provide interventions that address socio-economic factors among the forcibly displaced, along with increased resources for local communities
Integrate psychiatric care with broader health and human services
Increase availability of psychiatric care and remove barriers to diagnosis and treatment, while providing clinically effective and culturally sensitive services
National and Global Health Policy
Ensure equal access to health services for migrants
Make health policies and health system implementation compliant with the UN's 1951 Refugee Convention and consistent with its recent Compacts
Increase international pressure on the Syrian regime
Monitor, reduce, and prevent targeted attacks on healthcare facilities and medical personnel
Strengthen global governance
Leverage policy instruments to influence international donors, national health ministries, and program implementers