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Spousal violence against women and its consequences on pregnancy outcomes and reproductive health of women in India

BMC Women's Health, 2021
Background Globally, one in three women experienced domestic violence. Alike the scenario observed in India, and a very few studies talk about violence and its consequences on women's health.
Mahadev Bramhankar, R. S. Reshmi
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Seasonality of scabies and its association with climatic factors in Rohingya refugee camps, Cox’s Bazar: a retrospective observational study, 2021–2023

BMJ Open
Background Scabies is a common skin condition and poses a substantial disease burden in resource-poor tropical settings. The Rohingya refugee camps in Cox’s Bazar, Bangladesh represent one of the world’s largest and most protracted humanitarian crises ...
Charls Erik Halder, Md Abeed Hasan, Hamim Tassdik, James Charles Okello, Muhammad Feroz Khan, Emmanuel Roba Soma, Julekha Tabassum Poly, Md Sobuz Hosen, U Maung Prue, Abdul Hannan   +9 more
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Exploring the use of COVID-19 antigen rapid diagnostic tests among displaced populations in Iraq: findings from a pilot project in four IDP camps

Conflict and Health
Background IOM piloted the use of Ag RDTs for COVID-19 in Iraq, in collaboration with FIND, the Global Alliance for Diagnostics, to facilitate access to testing and understand barriers and opportunities for testing in a displacement context.
Lara Abou Ammar, Caitlin M. Wolfe, Lamiaa Nagib, Mohammed Slebei, Sezan Shawkat, Dilman Amo, Raveen Abdullah, Rawshan Abdulmalik, Hiwa Muhammed Amin, Huda Shafiq, Shivan Hafthalah, Aso Qahraman, Jirjees Mohammed, Hassan Ghawji, Srinath Satyanarayana, Nevin Wilson, Sanjay Sarin, Kekeletso Kao, Nellie Ghusayni   +18 more
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Improving health services to displaced persons in Aceh, Indonesia: a balanced scorecard

Bulletin of the World Health Organization
PROBLEM: After the Indian Ocean tsunami in December 2004, the International Organization for Migration constructed temporary health clinics to provide medical services to survivors living in temporary accommodation centres throughout Aceh, Indonesia ...
Grace J Chan, Kristin B Parco, Melva E Sihombing, Susan P Tredwell, Edward J O'Rourke   +4 more
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Health issues affecting female internal migrant workers: A systematic review

Journal of the College of Community Physicians, 2016
Background Economic contribution by internal migrant workers, in particular the workers in Export Processing Zones (EPZ) in Sri Lanka, is well recognized, yet the social and health consequences are unknown.Objective To systematically review the health ...
Upul Senarath, Kolitha Wickramage, Sharika Peiris   +2 more
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IMPACT OF MIGRATION ON TUBERCULOSIS AND HIV EPIDEMIC SITUATION IN RUSSIA

Туберкулез и болезни лёгких, 2015
The growing changes in migration and mobility of the population in Russia require additional study of the epidemic situation related to infectious diseases and evaluation of preparedness of specialized medical services and existing resources of the ...
O. B. Nechaeva, I. E. Kazanets, B. I. Sergeev   +2 more
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Migrant arrivals and deaths in the Mediterranean: what do the data really tell us?

Forced Migration Review, 2016
The policy and media gaze focuses on numbers of migrant arrivals and deaths. There are problems in the data for both categories.
Frank Laczko, Ann Singleton, Tara Brian , Marzia Rango   +3 more
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“We have a lot of home deliveries” A qualitative study on the impact of COVID-19 on access to and utilization of reproductive, maternal, newborn and child health care among refugee women in urban Eastleigh, Kenya

Journal of Migration and Health, 2020
Background: Little is known about how pregnant refugee women, and the frontline health care workers who serve them, are affected by the COVID-19 pandemic in terms of health, and health service access.
Adelaide M Lusambili, Michela Martini, Faiza Abdirahman, Abena Asante, Sharon Ochieng, Joseph N Guni, Rose Maina, Stanley Luchters   +7 more
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Migration and Health: a fast Changing European Scenario

El Guiniguada, 2016
La migración está cambiando el desarrollo económico y demográfico de la Unión Europea y de los países de la Asociación del Mercado Libre Europeo y, desde la perspectiva de la salud, está afectando a la epidemiología de la enfermedad.
Manuel Carballo, Sofiat Akinola, Sebastián Carballo   +2 more
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Protocol for a comprehensive analysis of hepatitis C risk factors among the Rohingya population in camp settings in Cox’s Bazar: a mixed-method study

BMJ Open
Background The hepatitis C virus (HCV)—a communicable disease of global health concerns—affects approximately 20% of the Rohingya refugee population in Cox’s Bazar, Bangladesh, which is higher than that observed in its endemic country and the host ...
Charls Erik Halder, Md Abeed Hasan, Hamim Tassdik, James Charles Okello, S M Niaz Mowla, Aarti Shrikrishana Singh, Partha Pratim Das, Md Arafat Hossen   +7 more
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