Resources & Referrals > Health Categories > Health Literacy

Health Literacy

Many people from refugee backgrounds, including people seeking asylum, have higher rates of long-term physical and psychological problems than other migrants, due in large part to their pre-immigration experiences, which are compounded by post-migration factors. People from refugee backgrounds can experience barriers when accessing primary care and other services. These may be related to trauma symptoms associated with the refugee experience, language, culture, health system literacy, lack of appropriate services, socioeconomic disadvantages as well as policies that restrict eligibility to health and other services.

For information about approaches to care for people from a refugee background, please see the Refugee Health Guide.

  • Tool for clinicians

  • Specialised areas

  • Health and Wellbeing

  • Resource or Referral

referral

referral

Referral Image
Referral
Health in My Language program

Category: Health Literacy

Health in My Language program is a national health education program for migrant and refugee-background communities to address barriers to vaccine literacy and uptake, and increase vaccine confidence by delivering accurate, multilingual information from trusted professional health educators across Australia.

Visit

referral

Referral Image
Referral
The Water Well Project

Category: Health Literacy

The Water Well Project: Free, interactive and inclusive health education sessions facilitated by volunteer healthcare professionals.

Visit

resource

resource

Resource Image
Resource
Life! Program

Category: Health Literacy

The Life! program is a free type 2 diabetes, heart disease and stroke prevention program that is funded by the Victorian Government and managed by Diabetes Victoria. The program is delivered in English, Arabic, Vietnamese, and Chinese (Cantonese/Mandarin).

Visit
Skip to content