Table 1. Summary of characteristics and results of included studies .

Author/Year	Study Design	Objective	Participant	Setting	Social Determinant	Outcome Variable	Impact
Campbell et al/ 2018 (18)	Cross-sectional analyses	To investigate the effect of social determinants, such as employment, language ability and accommodation, on mental health in refugees in the UK	New Refugees (n = 5678), in which all new UK refugees (2005-2007)	UK	language ability, employment status and accommodation satisfaction	Emotional well-being	Refugees who were unemployed in the UK, could not speak English well or were unsatisfied with their accommodation had significantly higher odds of poorer emotional well-being in the cross-sectional analysis
Delara et al/ 2016 (19)	Review	To reviews and consolidates findings from the existing literature on social determinants of immigrant women’s mental health within a socioecological framework.	Immigrant Women’s	Canada	Cultural Levels, Social Connections, Social support, Social Influence, Social Position(age, gender role, race, ethnic identity, marital and socioeconomic status), housing, neighborhood, and physical working conditions	Depression, anxiety, Post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD), low self-esteem, and anger	Findings of this review revealed that mental health of immigrant women is an outcome of several interacting determinants at social, cultural, and health care system levels and hence calls for many different ways to promote it
Jessica et al/ 2020 (20)	Randomized Controlled Trial	The goal of this RCT was to rigorously test a social justice approach to reducing high rates distress among refugees in the United States	A total of 290 refugee adults from 143 households	Southwestern United States	Acculturation, English Proficiency(understand, speak, read, and write),Social Support(family ethnic community, and non-ethnic community)	Emotional distress, Anxiety ,Depression	Addressing social determinants of mental health from a strengths-based, holistic approach that aims for multilevel change is effective at promoting the well-being of resettled refugees, including increasing protective factors and reducing emotional distress.
Nicholaset al/ 2017 (21)	Qualitative study	82 documented migrant workers	Singapore	Age, Salary ,Hours/week, Construction	Psychological distress	Migration status places workers who come into workplace conflict with their employers at heightened risk of mental illness.
Mawani/ 2014 (22)	Review	Outline a multi-level framework of determinants of mental health inequities, including macro-, community-, family-, and individual levels of determinants across a continuum from pre-migration to resettlement	Refugee	Canada	Macro-level factors(economic, political, social and physical environments), Community-level Factors(Social Factors, Cultural Factors, Psychological Factors, Built Environment), Family-level factors, Individual-level Factors(Migration Status and Context, Socioeconomic Status).	Mental health	Disparities in social determinants and in mental health outcomes between refugees, immigrants, and domestic-born individuals, and between sub-groups of refugees, are largely attributable to inequalities in social determinants, including socioeconomic factors, social support, and systemic racism and discrimination
Michaela Hynie et al/ 2018 (23)	Critical Review	Refugee	Canada	Income, Employment, Housing, Social Support and Social Isolation, Discrimination, Language Skills and Interpretation, The Asylum-Seeking Process	PTSD, distress, and/or depression
Bukola Salami et al/ 2017 (24)	Cross-sectional survey	Examined the relationship of both self-perceived mental health and reported diagnosis of mood disorders with age, gender, migration status, time since migration, and social determinants of health factors	12160 participants aged 15–79 years/migrant	Canada	Age, gender, Income, Employment, education, community belonging, Time since immigration	Self-perceived mental health and self-reported diagnosis of mood disorder
Wong et al/ 2017 (25)	Cross-sectional survey	To explore how mapped social determinates of health has impacted the mental health and wellbeing of African ASR’s in Hong Kong	374 African ASR(asylum-seekers and refugees) population in Hong Kong	African asylum-seekers and refugees in Hong Kong	Gender, Age Group, Marital Status, Biological/Behavioral Circumstances, Place of origin, Length of Residence in Hong Kong, Recreational Drugs, Multiple Sex partners,	Depressive
Hollander/ 2013 (26)	Cross-sectional design	To increase knowledge, using population-based registers, of how pre- and post-migration factors and social determinants of health are associated with inequalities in poor mental health and mortality among refugees and other immigrants to Sweden	I: All immigrants from Afghanistan, Iraq, Iran, the Middle East, Somalia, and the former Yugoslavia in 2006 II Part 1: All registered immigrants compared with all Swedish-born in the year 2006. Part 2: Immigrants from non-OECD-countries in 2006 who arrived in Sweden since 1993. III Non-labour-market immigrants IV The total population in 2000 2006 with a strong connection to the labour market	Sweden	Age, education, and marital status, immigrant’s country of origin(ethnicity), employment	Psychotropic drugs, mortality, depressive disorder	The relative risk of hospitalization due to depressive disorder following unemployment.
Kim et al/ 2014 (27)	Review	The article will offer best practice recommendations based on the factors identified through the SDMH framework for Southeast Asian refugees	Refugees	Southeast Asian Refugees in United States	Income, education, occupation, social class, gender, race/ethnicity, and nativity status	Mental health
Kuo et al/ 2020 (28)	Cross-sectional research design	To examine and identify predictors of mental health and physical health in a sample of adult Syr­ian	A total of 235 Syrian refugees	Syrian Refugees in Canada	Educational level, marital status, sex, Family Income, Ethnic group and English proficiency level	Mental health

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