Mental Health and Forced Displacement

Original Editor - Shaimaa Eldib Top Contributors - Shaimaa Eldib, Naomi O'Reilly, Kim Jackson, Candace Goh, Jess Bell, Vidya Acharya and Carin Hunter

Introduction[edit | edit source]

Mental health can be defined whether as the state of the absence of mental disease or the existence of it. and it includes the psychological, biological or social factors as well that contribute to an individual’s mental state and ability to function within the environment[1].

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  1. Manwell LA, Barbic SP, Roberts K, Durisko Z, Lee C, Ware E, McKenzie K. What is mental health? Evidence towards a new definition from a mixed methods multidisciplinary international survey. BMJ open. 2015 Jun 1;5(6):e007079.