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Vitamin D deficiency in refugees in Italy

open access: yesReumatismo, 2017
The objective of the research is to determine 25[OH]D serum levels in refugees in Italy. In the following research we have taken into consideration the results of the monitoring of Vitamin D levels in 46 refugees of the Italian Service for protection of ...
L.G. De Filippis   +3 more
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Proposal for Malaysia’s Asylum Act

open access: yesAsian Journal of Law and Policy, 2021
Asylum is granted to people in search for international protection from persecution or serious harm in their own country. The right to asylum for refugees in Malaysia is far from realization and in dire need of a practical solution.
Hench Goh   +4 more
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Self-administered EMDR therapy: potential solution for expanding the availability of psychotherapy for PTSD or unregulated recipe for disaster?

open access: yesBJPsych Open, 2020
BackgroundPost-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) carries a high disease burden worldwide, yet significant barriers exist to providing and accessing treatment for PTSD, particularly in refugee populations and in low- and middle-income countries.
Lauren Z. Waterman, Maxwell Cooper
doaj   +1 more source

Health care provided to recent asylum-seeking and non-asylum-seeking pediatric patients in 2016 and 2017 at a Swiss tertiary hospital - a retrospective study

open access: yesBMC Public Health, 2021
Background Asylum-seeking children represent an increasing and vulnerable group of patients whose health needs are largely unmet. Data on the health care provision to asylum-seeking children in European contexts is scarce.
Julia Brandenberger   +4 more
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Psychosocial Workers and Indigenous Religious Leaders: An Integrated Vision for Collaboration in Humanitarian Crisis Response

open access: yesReligions, 2023
Indigenous religious leaders can be the most trusted organic helping agents within vulnerable communities, but often lack orientation to the language and paradigms of the mental health and psychosocial support (MHPSS) professionals responding to their ...
David William Alexander   +1 more
doaj   +1 more source

Impact of initial health assessment and crisis counselling for newly arrived Asylum seekers

open access: yesEuropean Psychiatry, 2021
Introduction Evaluate the impact of the initial health assessment service for asylum seekers provided by the Asylum Practice Service. Objectives Examine the inputs of Asylum practice service to asylum seekers.
P. Uwamaliya
doaj   +1 more source

Reasons for admission in asylum-seeking and non-asylum-seeking patients in a paediatric tertiary care centre

open access: yesSwiss Medical Weekly, 2020
BACKGROUND In the last decade an increasing number of asylum-seeking children arrived in Europe and local healthcare systems have been challenged to adapt to their health needs. The aim of this study was to compare the spectrum of disease and
Myriam Gmünder   +4 more
doaj   +1 more source

Meeting basic needs? Forced migrants and welfare [PDF]

open access: yes, 2005
As the number of forced migrants entering Britain has risen, increasingly restrictive immigration and asylum policy has been introduced. Simultaneously, successive governments have sought to limit the welfare entitlements of forced migrants. Drawing on
Brown, D, Dwyer, PJ
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How to be a ‘Good Asylum Seeker’? The Subjectification of Young Men Seeking Asylum

open access: yesNordic Journal of Migration Research, 2021
This research focuses on the subjectification of young asylum-seeking men. By subjectification, we mean the effort an individual invests in detecting, negotiating, meeting and contesting the surrounding discursive expectations. The underlying question is:
Maria Petäjäniemi   +2 more
doaj   +1 more source

Asylum legislation and asylum applications: a geographical analysis of Belgian asylum policy by country of origin (1992-2003) [PDF]

open access: yes, 2010
In many European countries a traditional policy and legal response to an undesirable increase of asylum applications has been the change of asylum law and procedures.
Vanheule, Dirk, Witlox, Frank
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