Interventions to Improve Health Among Refugees in the United States: A Systematic Review.

ABSTRACT: Refugees arriving to the U.S. experience a high burden of both communicable and non-communicable diseases. There is a potential to improve health outcomes for refugees through well-developed, comprehensive interventions, but the effectiveness of such interventions is poorly understood. The purpose of this review is to identify, characterize and evaluate the effectiveness of patient-level healthcare interventions for U.S. refugee populations. We conducted a systematic review according to the Preferred Reporting Items for Systematic Reviews and Meta-Analyses. Medline via PubMed, Web of Science, Embase, and CINAHL were searched for articles that included a population of refugees of any age, included an intervention aimed at improving health, included an evaluation of the intervention's outcom

SUBMITTER: Bitterfeld L 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11805879 | biostudies-literature | 2025 Feb

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature