Welcome to the Victorian Refugee Health Network.
We work to develop responsive health service systems that meet the needs of people from refugee backgrounds, including asylum seekers.
This report outlines the discussions from the first national roundtable on responding to violence against culturally and linguistically diverse (CALD) women and their children.
This report documents phase one of a three-part project by the Health Issues Centre and the Victorian Refugee Health Network to understand the health information needs of refugee women and how best to provide this information
This report presents the current knowledge about family violence against immigrant and refugee women in metropolitan and regional Australia. The report covers published and unpublished studies, reports, evaluations and policy papers.
This report examines current knowledge about family violence against immigrant and refugee women. The report identifies key gaps in literature, particularly in connection to the ways immigration policies, structural disadvantage and location interact with immigrant and refugee women’s
A paper on the findings of a qualitative study of the contraception knowledge, attitudes and beliefs of African Australian teenagers and women from a refugee background in Melbourne. In-depth interviews were conducted with sixteen African Australian teenagers and women. Knowledge of c
The following projects or research reports relate to the topics of domestic violence, family relations and dynamics in specific reference to the impact of the refugee experience, resettlement and experience of torture/trauma on these relationships. ** Scroll down for referral to suppo