Abstract:

Abstract Migration is a phenomenon that affects society and individuals socially, culturally and physically and has significant effects on health and variables of health. For reasons such as inconvenience of living and sheltering conditions, financial challenges, lack of health coverage, language barrier due to being in a different country, migration affects refugees’ health from several aspects. Such effect on health is observed to be larger on refugee women and leaves them with even more disadvantages due to their social status and traditional roles. It has been found in the literature that migrant women suffer from many obstetric and gynecologic problems including miscarriages and stillbirths. Women may also be exposed to all kinds of violence in the environment of war and migration. Furthermore, marriage and pregnancy at younger ages as well as their inability to use contraceptive methods further increase the problems of abuse and health. Refugee women cannot act on their own due to their position within the family when utilizing healthcare services, and it is known that they have problem with accessing the healthcare institution and are incompetent in accessing the service.

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