a r t i c l e i n f o The war in Bosnia and Herzegovina of the early nineties displaced 1.3 million people. This study uses longitudinal data to document the effects of this displacement on labor market outcomes. To account for endogeneity in displacement, I exploit the fact that the level of violence affected the decision to leave and that prewar economic performance is orthogonal to local vio...

BACKGROUND Estimating the size of forcibly displaced populations is key to documenting their plight and allocating sufficient resources to their assistance, but is often not done, particularly during the acute phase of displacement, due to methodological challenges and inaccessibility. In this study, we explored the potential use of very high resolution satellite imagery to remotely estimate fo...

The Universal Declaration of Human Rights ratified by the UN in 1948 encompasses the concepts of creating and enabling occupational opportunities including work, leisure, education and community participation (United Nations, 1948). The UN Declaration supports occupational therapists to act on behalf of our clients and our communities as well as diverse populations of vulnerable people. The Wor...

♦ The deterioration or complete collapse of both central government authority and (parts of) civil society. ♦ Episodic food insecurity, frequently deteriorating into mass starvation. ♦ Macro-economic collapse involving hyperinflation, massive unemployment, and net decreases in Gross National Product. ♦ Mass population movements of displaced people and refugees escaping conflict or searching for...

technology selection is an important part of management of technology. recently karsak and ahiska (2005) proposed a novel common weight multiple criteria decision making (mcdm) methodology for selection of the best advanced manufacturing technology (amt) candidates based on a number of attributes. however, amin et al. (2006), by means of a numerical example demonstrated the convergence difficul...

Since 2009, disasters have displaced each year at least 15 million people worldwide. Immediately post-disaster, emergency shelters serve those displaced. The sheltering system often consists of formal (managed by the government) and spontaneous volunteers). These two types may offer different resources with atmospheres that can vary widely. Displaced persons select between based on their person...

Public health communication is the production and exchange of information to inform, influence or motivate the target audience to enable desirable, sustainable health practices at individual, community and institutional levels. This paper explores key issues relating to health communication in refugees and other displaced populations, i.e. the “hardly reached”.1 Though there are several challen...