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Measuring self-rated health status among resettled adult refugee populations to inform practice and policy – a scoping review

BMC Health Services Research, 2017
Background The health status of refugees is a significant factor in determining their success in resettlement and relies heavily on self-rated measures of refugee health.
Alison Dowling, Joanne Enticott, Grant Russell   +2 more
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'I am a Widow, Mother and Refugee': Narratives of Two Refugee Widows Resettled to Australia

, 2014
The sparse literature on contemporary narratives of widowhood among refugee women as a consequence of conflict situations indicates that this aspect of lived experience is relatively unexplored.
Lenette, Caroline, Lenette, C ; https://orcid.org/   +1 more
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Blank slates or hidden treasure? Assessing and building on the experiential learning of migrant and refugee women in European countries [PDF]

, 2005
Commonly, the work situation of migrant and refugee women declines notably on arriving in the new country, irrespective of their existing qualifications and even after they have taken accepted qualifications.
Clayton, P.
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From Parallel Provision to Health System Integration: Exploring the Trajectory and Contextual Drivers of the Healthcare Response for Refugees in Six Low‐ and Middle‐Income Countries

The International Journal of Health Planning and Management, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Rising numbers of refugees, prolonged displacement and reduced funding have led to challenges in terms of how to address their healthcare needs, with different approaches taken, ranging from parallel mechanisms to arrangements that are integrated (to different extents) within the national health system. Increasingly, global frameworks call for
Maria Paola Bertone, Natasha Palmer, Amina Olabi, Ibrahim Bou‐Orm, Hussam Rekani, Hassan Ould Moctar, Ricardo Chuquimia, Chitalu Miriam Chama‐Chiliba, Ben Ngoye, Zahid Ali Memon, Marcia Vera‐Espinoza, Karin Diaconu, Alastair Ager, Sophie Witter   +13 more
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Health assessments of refugee minors arriving in Norway – a modified Delphi study among health professionals in primary care settings

BMC Public Health
Background Refugee minors are considered particularly vulnerable to negative health consequences from war, flight and resettlement. Offering health assessments after arrival in a host country could uncover unmet health needs and provide access to ...
Cecilie Dangmann, Annette Løvheim Kleppang, Marja Leonhardt   +2 more
doaj   +1 more source

The Health of Immigrants and Refugees in Canada [PDF]

Canadian Journal of Public Health, 2005
Canada admits between more than 200,000 immigrants every year. National policy emphasizes rigorous selection to ensure that Canada admits healthy immigrants. However, remarkably little policy is directed to ensuring that they stay healthy. This neglect is wrong-headed: keeping new settlers healthy is just, humane, and consistent with national self ...
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Constructing a refugee: the state, NGOs and gendered experiences of asylum in the Czech Republic [PDF]

This study is an exploration of an institutionalised world that refugees inhabit in today’s Europe. It argues that the institutional system that organises the reception of refugees and their settlement in a receiving country is based on historically and ...
Szczepaniková, Alice
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Investigation of community health nurses’ experience and use of an assessment framework when working with refugee families

, 2020
Refugee health services (RHS) provide initial triage nursing assessment and coordination of care, in addition to initiating referral pathways for newly arrival refugee families across Queensland regions. The aim of this study was to explore the community
Rands, Hazel, Coyne, Elisabeth
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How Health Systems ‘Software’ Factors Affect Frontline Health Workers' Humanitarian Response Efforts During Infectious Disease Outbreaks in the Rohingya Refugee Camps, Cox's Bazar, Bangladesh

The International Journal of Health Planning and Management, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Humanitarian settings face a growing healthcare workforce crisis marked by staff shortages, unsafe working conditions, and limited professional development. Despite being critical intermediaries in outbreak responses, demands on health workers come at a substantial cost to their health and wellbeing.
Georgia Venner, Jennifer Palmer, Tasmia Aksi, Mahima Das Mumu, Mohammed Mirza Nu, Gillian McKay, Mahbub Ur Rahman Ujjal, Bhargavi Rao, Ahmed Hossain, Susannah Mayhew   +9 more
wiley   +1 more source

Immigrant, Refugee, and Migrant Health Branch [PDF]

CDC\u2019s Division of Global Migration and Quarantine (DGMQ) focuses on activities that lessen the public health risks of rapid global travel because diseases and outbreaks can quickly cross international borders.

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