Ethnic populations in eastern Burma are the target of military policies that result in forced labour, destruction of food supplies, and massive forced displacement. Despite international assistance to Burmese refugees along the Thai-Burma border, traditional humanitarian models have failed to reach these internally displaced persons (IDPs) within Burma. Nevertheless, through the cultivation of ...

Rapid epidemiological assessment (REA) has evolved over the past 30 years into an essential tool of disaster management. Small area survey and sampling methods are the major application. While REA is protocol driven, needs assessment of displaced populations remains highly non-standardized. The United Nations and other international organizations continue to call for the development of standard...

Under field conditions, species displacements have occurred in different directions between the same invasive species of leafminers (Diptera: Agromyzidae). Liriomyza sativae (Blanchard) was displaced by L. trifolii (Burgess) in the western United States, with evidence suggesting that lower insecticide susceptibility of L. trifolii is a factor. However, in Japan, the opposite has occurred, as L....

The World Commission on Dams (WCD) report documented a number of social and environmental problems observed in dam development projects. The WCD gave particular emphasis to the challenges of properly resettling populations physically displaced by dams, and estimated the total number of people directly displaced at 40-80 million. Less attention has been given, however, to populations living down...

Large-scale agricultural land acquisitions might entail substantial welfare implications for the affected rural population. Whether the impacts are indeed as devastating as the popular notion of “land grabs” would suggest depends on a number of factors, including the size of compensation payments, productivity spillovers on smallholders, employment opportunities for displaced farmers, and chang...

This study analyzes access to medicines among displaced and non-displaced populations in urban areas in Bucaramanga, Colombia. A household survey was carried out to study access to medicines for self-reported and medically diagnosed health conditions. Multiple Poisson regression with robust variance was used to determine factors associated with access to medicines. Two thousand and sixty indivi...

The binding of the diphenyl-substituted piperazine derivative, [3H]GBR-12935, a selective dopamine uptake inhibitor, to the post-mortem human putamen was studied. Inhibition curves by dopamine uptake inhibitors suggested the existence of two populations of [3H]GBR-12935 binding sites: one is potently inhibited by mazindol and/or nomifensine, and the second binding site is benztropine- and/or GB...

BACKGROUND The rising global burden of forced migration due to armed conflict is increasingly recognised as an important issue in global health. Forced migrants are at a greater risk of developing mental disorders. However, resilience, defined as the ability of a person to successfully adapt to or recover from stressful and traumatic experiences, has been highlighted as a key potential protecti...

Abstract Displaced girls and women face a range of gendered challenges living in humanitarian contexts, including issues related to managing their menstruation safely, privately, with dignity. Specific barriers identified across contexts include lack access menstrual materials supplies, safe private toilets, health information. Despite growing efforts by organizations address the menstruation-r...

When populations are displaced, say after a hurricane or man-made crisis, water and wastewater utilities can face real challenge in providing services to those displaced. The is especially difficult when the local infrastructure was already strained trying meet host community’s pre-displacement demand. What most communities need resilient systems, what we develop this paper an integrated approa...