OBJECTIVE To determine the prevalence of selected infectious diseases among newly arrived refugee patients and whether there is variation by key demographic factors. DESIGN Retrospective chart review. SETTING Primary care clinic for refugee patients in Toronto, Ont. PARTICIPANTS A total of 1063 refugee patients rostered at the clinic from December 2011 to June 2014. MAIN OUTCOME MEASURE...

Background: Information about the refugees' experiences in the health care system is needed to improve the quality of health care delivered. This study aimed to investigate the experiences of Communication Apprehension (CA) and Fear of Physician (FoP) in the Afghan refugee women referred to the Iranian health care clinics during the COVID-19 pandemic in the year 2020 in Rafsanjan, Iran. Materi...

Afghanistan is back under the control of Taliban shortly after United States withdrew its troops nearly 20 years in Afghanistan. The success group seizing several provinces faster than predicted, this then made some residents afraid and airport Kabul filled with hundreds people who wanted to leave news occupation has attracted attention international community, there are those worried about con...

This paper engages with the violent conditions deriving from neoliberal trends in European migration and asylum governance. We explore how continuous precarity, conjunction an integration imperative, affects lives of recently arrived Afghan refugees Germany Switzerland. Drawing on critical engagements politics theories violence, we argue that, both countries, Afghans are increasingly forced to ...

The study gauges the impact of refugee influx on labor market in Pakistan. Afghan refugees is analyzed using three indicators namely, unemployment, formal employment and informal from years 1979 to 2022. For purpose analysis, ADF PP tests are applied first for examining unit root problem. Variables found having mixed order integration so ARDL bound test co-integration used derive long run short...

OBJECTIVES To document the prevalence of Chlamydia trachomatis and Neisseria gonorrhoeae in the refugee population settling in Western Australia from 1 January 2006 to 31 December 2009 and make recommendations for future screening for chlamydia and gonorrhoea in the refugee population. DESIGN AND PARTICIPANTS A prevalence and quality assurance study of 2610 refugees aged 15 years and older wh...