Abstract:

Introduction:
The ReHIn project aims to create several creative digital resources to enable the integration of refugees into the EU's (European Union's) health culture. One of the main objectives of ReHIn is to focus on refugee integration in terms of health services use and how health and medicine are practised in the EU compared to significant refugees’ home countries. Besides the educational material developed, the initiative analysed educational initiatives for refugees to establish guidelines and best practices encouraging and informing about similar future endeavours.

Methodology:
For each educational initiative for refugees, it was compiled the following information: title; data launched; ending date; place where it is implemented; available languages; summary; focus (education, social inclusion, language learning, employment, teacher training, gender equality, healthcare, mental illness, sexual and reproductive health, protection); target population; main objectives; Education type (synchronous, asynchronous, both); type or resources developed (app, digital resources, electronic handbook, MOOC (Massive Open Online Courses), lesson plans, online course, online learning portal, online simulation game, policy paper, video, audio, webinar): pedagogical methodologies used; identified innovation elements; lessons learned; scalability potential; who is financing it; related URL (Uniform Resource Locator). Then, a methodological analysis was performed considering the earlier information and the success and failure drivers.

Results:
16 practices were compiled and analysed. As an overview, most were global, and all were available in English plus one or more other languages, the second most numerous language, Spanish. Regarding the best practices, general education was the main topic, followed by social inclusion and how to be integrated into the country where refugees and migrants have just arrived. In addition, there are five regarding healthcare, how the countries' health systems work, which services they can use, and so on. The target population of the practices were kids or young refugees and migrants who have just arrived in a new country, students, healthcare professionals, refugees and migrant women, social workers, and NGOs (Non-governmental organisations). All previous information was compiled on a web page (rehin.webs.upv.es/). The objective of this guideline is to inform the wider audience, including educators and healthcare organisations, about how to create material about refugees, showing good practices that have happened in Europe to extract knowledge and aspects on which researchers, policymakers and NGOs can learn and improve when they develop their health-related resources for refugees. It presents a set of recommendations, lessons learned, and suggestions to support further deployment of resources for refugees.

Keywords:

Best practices, Health-related education, Integration of refugees, EU health services use resources.