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Understanding the challenges and gaps in community engagement interventions for COVID-19 prevention strategies in Rohingya refugees: a qualitative study with frontline workers and community representatives

Frontiers in Public Health, 2023
BackgroundRohingya refugees in Bangladesh are vulnerable to infectious diseases such as COVID-19 due to the crowded living conditions with fragile shelters, and limited water, sanitation and hygiene facilities and practices.
Charls Erik Halder, Md Abeed Hasan, Yussuf Mohamed Mohamud, Marsela Nyawara, James Charles Okello, Md Nahid Mizan, Md Abu Sayum, Ahmed Hossain, Ahmed Hossain   +8 more
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Migration from Bosnia and Herzegovina to Croatia: Migration patterns of immigrants in Zagreb [PDF]

Stanovništvo, 2018
The 2011 population census recorded 4,290,612 residents of Croatia among which 584,947 or 13.7% were born abroad. Even though the most of them were born in Bosnia and Herzegovina (70% or 409,357) no research was conducted about this significant ...
Klempić-Bogadi Sanja, Gregurović Margareta, Podgorelec Sonja   +2 more
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Tuberculosis-related knowledge, behaviors, stigmatizing attitude, and discrimination among refugees, migrants, and the general population in Jordan

SAGE Open Medicine, 2023
Objective: A better understanding of tuberculosis-related knowledge, attitude, practices in the community, and other issues can help in implementing evidence-driven activities to control tuberculosis in Jordan.
Majd A Alsoukhni, Yousef Khader, Hiba Abaza, Nevin Wilson, Srinath Satyanarayana   +4 more
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Into the Unknown: COVID-19 and the Global Mobility of Migrant Workers

AJIL Unbound, 2020
As the COVID-19 crisis developed, the International Labor Organization estimated that 4.7 percent of the global labor pool, comprising 164 million people, were migrant workers who were living and working outside their home country.
Tesseltje de Lange, Sandra Mantu, Paul Minderhoud   +2 more
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Reducing uncertainty in Delphi surveys: A case study on immigration to the EU [PDF]

Demographic Research, 2023
BACKGROUND: Following the rapid increase of asylum seekers arriving in the European Union in 2015/16, policymakers have invested heavily in improving their foresight and forecasting capabilities.
Rhea Ravenna Sohst, Eduardo Acostamadiedo, Jasper Tjaden   +2 more
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Newly arrived migrants did not represent an additional COVID-19 burden for Italy: data from the italian information flow

Globalization and Health, 2023
Background During the COVID-19 pandemic, migrants arriving in host countries irregularly have not infrequently been perceived as increasing the COVID-19 burden.
Leuconoe Grazia Sisti, Anteo Di Napoli, Alessio Petrelli, Alessandra Diodati, Andrea Cavani, Concetta Mirisola, Gianfranco Costanzo   +6 more
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Nutritional profile of Syrian refugee children before resettlement

Conflict and Health, 2019
Background The year 2015 marked the highest number of refugees globally and included record numbers of Syrians moving to neighboring countries. Half of the Syrians were children aged ≤18 years. Our study sought to examine undernutrition and overnutrition
Sweetmavourneen Pernitez-Agan, Kolitha Wickramage, Catherine Yen, Elizabeth Dawson-Hahn, Tarissa Mitchell, Dominik Zenner   +5 more
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The Calabrian Apennines: Important Bird Area (IBA) for the Autumn migration of Raptors

Rivista Italiana di Ornitologia - Research in Ornithology, 2012
Observations on the autumn migration of raptors were carried out on the Calabrian Appennines in the area where the Italian peninsula is only 30 km wide.
Michele Panuccio, Nicolantonio Agostini, Ugo Mellone, Giuseppe Lucia, Jack-Ashton Booth, Steven Wilson, Gianpasquale Chiatante, Simone Todisco   +7 more
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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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The grey-green divide: multi-temporal analysis of greenness across 10,000 urban centres derived from the Global Human Settlement Layer (GHSL)

International Journal of Digital Earth, 2020
The presence of green spaces within city centres has been recognized as a valuable component of the city landscape. Vegetation provides a variety of benefits including energy saving, improved air quality, reduced noise pollution, decreased ambient ...
Christina Corbane, Pesaresi Martino, Politis Panagiotis, Florczyk J. Aneta, Melchiorri Michele, Freire Sergio, Schiavina Marcello, Ehrlich Daniele, Naumann Gustavo, Kemper Thomas   +9 more
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