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Development of mental health services for lower-skilled migrant workers in Qatar

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submitted on 2023-10-30, 07:45 and posted on 2023-10-30, 10:36 authored by Javed Latoo, Ovais Wadoo, Yousaf Iqbal, Nirvana Swamy Kudlur Chandrappa, Iain Tulley, Majid Alabdulla

The largest group of migrants in Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) countries are lower-skilled migrant workers. GCC countries have witnessed significant healthcare infrastructure investments over recent decades. Despite this, they are lagging to mainstream the mental health needs of lower-skilled migrants into national health policy frameworks. Qatar is one of the GCC countries where lower-skilled migrants constitute 50 per cent of population. In this article,we provide an overview of the development of specialist mental health service for lower-skilled migrants’ and discuss the challenges, and measures taken by the State of Qatar to mainstream their health needs into national health policy framework.

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Published in: Asian Journal of Psychiatry
License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
See article on publisher's website: https://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.ajp.2021.102709

Additional institutions affiliated with: Mental Health Services - HMC

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Open Access funding provided by the Qatar National Library

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  • English

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Elsevier

Publication Year

  • 2021

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This Item is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License

Institution affiliated with

  • Hamad Medical Corporation
  • Qatar University
  • Qatar University Health - QU
  • College of Medicine - QU HEALTH

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Qatar

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