Health and social care needs of adult asylum seekers in high-income countries and their experiences of accessing care services: An overview of systematic reviews.

ABSTRACT: Background Worldwide, 6.1 million people are seeking asylum because of persecution, conflicts, and human rights violations. This overview of systematic reviews (SRs) assessed the existing evidence on the care needs of asylum seekers in high-income countries and their experiences of accessing care services. Methods We searched eight electronic databases up to January 2024 for relevant peer-reviewed SRs and assessed their methodological quality using the JBI tool for Systematic Reviews and Research Syntheses. We extracted information on the characteristics of SRs and summarised common themes. Results We identified five SRs of satisfactory quality published between 2014 and 2021. Participants across the reviews ranged from 90 to 20,951. Common themes included communicatio

SUBMITTER: Ho L 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC12392764 | biostudies-literature | 2025

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature