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Health of men, women, and children in post-trafficking services in Cambodia, Thailand, and Vietnam: an observational cross-sectional study

The Lancet Global Health, 2015
Background: Trafficking is a crime of global proportions involving extreme forms of exploitation and abuse. Yet little research has been done of the health risks and morbidity patterns for men, women, and children trafficked for various forms of forced ...
Dr. Ligia Kiss, PhD, Nicola S Pocock, MSc, Varaporn Naisanguansri, Soksreymom Suos, MA, Brett Dickson, BA, Doan Thuy, MA, Jobst Koehler, Kittiphan Sirisup, Nisakorn Pongrungsee, Van Anh Nguyen, MA, Rosilyne Borland, MA, Poonam Dhavan, MPH, Cathy Zimmerman, PhD   +12 more
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Perception of effective access to health services in Territorial Spaces for Training and Reincorporation, one year after the peace accords in Colombia: a cross-sectional study [version 2; peer review: 2 approved]

F1000Research, 2020
Backgrounds: The signing of the peace accords in Colombia created challenges that are inherent to post-conflict transitions. One of those is the process of reintegrating ex-combatants into society, in which ensuring their rights to health is a ...
Julián Alfredo Fernández-Niño, Lud Magdy Chavarro, Ana Beatriz Vásquez-Rodríguez, Maylen Liseth Rojas-Botero, Ginna Esmeralda Hernández-Neuta, Ana Maria Peñuela-Poveda, David Alejandro Rodríguez   +6 more
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International Migration and Human Rights [PDF]

, 2018
In this chapter, I bring non-ideal theory to bear on the ethics of immigration. In particular, I explore what the obligations of liberal states would be if they were to attempt to implement migration arrangements that conform to liberal-cosmopolitan ...
Ferracioli, Luara
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Determinants of International Student Migration [PDF]

, 2015
© 2016 John Wiley & Sons Ltd. This paper considers what factors determine the migration of overseas students, when students cross borders for higher education.
Abbott, Andrew, Silles, Mary
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High prevalence of current tobacco smoking among patients with tuberculosis and people living with HIV in Jordan: A cross-sectional survey

Tobacco Induced Diseases, 2023
Introduction Continued smoking by patients with tuberculosis (TB) and people living with HIV (PLHIV) leads to adverse treatment outcomes. Estimates of tobacco use among the population are scarce in the Eastern Mediterranean region, where the burden of TB
Ayaka Teshima, Ayah A. Shatnawi, Srinath Satyanarayana, Yousef S. Khader, Ibrahim F. Maia, Nevin C. Wilson   +5 more
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Internal migration related factors among dengue patients in Western Province, Sri Lanka

Journal of the College of Community Physicians, 2019
Introduction: In recent years, Sri Lanka has experienced a surge in the incidence of dengue. Among other reasons, internal migration of people into dengue-high risk areas is thought to be an important factor for the rising case load.
Sharika Peiris, Indrakantha P. Welgama, Kolitha Wickramage, Chrishantha Abeysena   +3 more
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The performance and yield of tuberculosis testing algorithms using microscopy, chest x-ray, and Xpert MTB/RIF

Journal of Clinical Tuberculosis and Other Mycobacterial Diseases, 2019
Setting: The introduction of Xpert MTB/RIF (Xpert) and renewed interest in chest x-ray (CXR) for tuberculosis testing has provided additional choices to the smear-based diagnostic algorithms used by TB programs previously.
Jacob Creswell, Zhi Zhen Qin, Rajendra Gurung, Bikash Lamichhane, Deepak Kumar Yadav, Mohan Kumar Prasai, Nirmala Bista, Lal Mani Adhikari, Bishwa Rai, Santat Sudrungrot   +9 more
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International healthcare worker migration in Asia Pacific: International policy responses [PDF]

, 2018
The growth of the international migration of health workers in recent decades has taken place in the context of the transnationalisation of healthcare provision as well as of governance and policy responses.
Pillinger, Jane, Yeates, Nicola
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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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International migration and “educated unemployment” [PDF]

Journal of Development Economics, 2007
This paper provides a novel explanation of “educated unemployment”, which is a salient feature of the labor markets in a number of developing countries. In a simple job-search framework we show that “educated unemployment” is caused by the prospect of international migration, that is, by the possibility of a “brain drain”.
Stark, Oded, Fan, C. Simon
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