Refugee Health Nurse Programs

STTARS is funded by the Adelaide Primary Health Network (PHN) to advocate, support, and provide health education for migrants, refugees and asylum seekers living in Adelaide.

STTARS operates a program which aims to empower refugees to achieve better health outcomes, successfully navigate the Australian healthcare system and gain a better understanding of their own health needs.

Through this program we also support and encourage primary healthcare services to understand some of the barriers refugees encounter in accessing health care due to their limited knowledge of health systems in Australia and how they work, low basic health literacy, language barriers, cultural differences, socioeconomic disadvantage and other settlement challenges.