نتایج جستجو برای: refugee

تعداد نتایج: 6963  

2017
Tim R. Wind Niels van der Aa Simone de la Rie Jeroen Knipscheer

Background: Questionnaires are widely used to assess the mental health status of refugees, whereas their construct validity largely remains unexplored. Objective: This study examined the construct validity of two widely-used instruments for the assessment of PTSD symptoms (Harvard Trauma Questionnaire [HTQ]; 16 items) and symptoms of anxiety and depression (Hopkins Symptom Check list-25 [HSCL-2...

2013
Gunilla Jarkman Björn Per A Gustafsson Gunilla Sydsjö Carina Berterö

BACKGROUND Due to the armed conflicts in the Balkans in the 1990s many families escaped to other countries. The main goal of this study was to explore in more detail the complexity of various family members' experiences and perceptions from their life before the war, during the war and the escape, and during their new life in Sweden. There is insufficient knowledge of refugee families' percepti...

Journal: :New South Wales public health bulletin 2010
Susan Thomas Paul Douglas Mitchell Smith

At the end of 2008 there were approximately 42 million people around the world who had been forcibly displaced from their homeland. As a signatory to the United Nations Refugee Convention, Australia resettles over 13 000 refugees each year, with 4000 settling in New South Wales (NSW). In 2007–2008, most of these people originated from Burma, Iraq, Afghanistan, Sudan and Liberia. The majority co...

2013

The resources outlined below were attained through an internet and academic journal search of Australian and international research relating to the role of refugee community organisations and structures on the settlement experiences of refugees. Summaries include the aim and purpose of the research, methodology and major findings as they relate particularly to the role of refugee community orga...

Journal: :Rhode Island medical journal 2013
Sylvia Lacourse Natasha Rybak Carol Lewis Jennifer Gartman Jerome Larkin Suzanne McLaughlin Elizabeth T Toll

Since October 2008, the Medicine/Pediatrics Primary Care Center (MPPCC) has been working with Rhode Island's refugee resettlement agency to coordinate medial care for newly resettled adults and adolescent refugees. The process includes obtaining extensive screening labs and providing immunizations. This review discusses the results of selected screening tests for latent TB, stool parasites, vit...

2009
Dirk TIEDE Stefan LANG

In this paper we present new methods for accelerating object-based image analysis using distributed computing. This is demonstrated on imagery from the refugee camp Lukole in Tanzania. An IKONOS scene from the refugee camp was chosen and relevant dwelling units were extracted. Promising results were achieved coping with an increasing data load and likewise with the demanded timeliness while a h...

2014
Melanie Gibson-Helm Helena Teede Andrew Block Michelle Knight Christine East Euan M Wallace Jacqueline Boyle

BACKGROUND Women of refugee background from Africa are reported to have a greater risk of adverse pregnancy outcomes compared to women born in resettlement countries. However, there is currently little insight into whether adverse pregnancy outcomes are more common among migrant women of refugee background, compared to women who have migrated for non-humanitarian reasons. To inform whether wome...

2001
Peter Salama Fitsum Assefa

PUBLIC HEALTH RECOMMENDAtions for complex emergencies, based on important studies conducted in refugee camps, are now codified in guidelines and minimum standards for humanitarian interventions. Programs derived from these recommendations, such as mass measles vaccination campaigns, provision of water and sanitation facilities, and food aid, are now systematically implemented in refugee camps d...

2011
Kerstin Linnéa Samarasinghe

Refugee families face a complex transition due to the nature of involuntary migration and the process of acculturation. There are several risk factors to the family adaptation process during the transition period, which are sociocontextually environmental dependant. Facilitating a healthy transition for refugee families, therefore, requires the role of nursing to incorporate sociopolitics into ...

Journal: :American anthropologist 2012
Nell Gabiam

In recent years, the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East (UNRWA) has attempted to go beyond its role as a provider of relief and basic services in Palestinian refugee camps and emphasize its role as a development agency. In this article, I focus on the Neirab Rehabilitation Project, an UNRWA-sponsored development project taking place in the Palestinian...

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