Erratum: “Unsafe Harbor? Elevated Blood Lead Levels in Refugee Children” A passage in the June 2013 News article “Unsafe Harbor? Elevated Blood Lead Levels in Refugee Children” [Environ Health Perspect 121:A190–A195 (2013)] attributed provisions of the Lead-Safe Housing Rule to the Lead Disclosure Rule, and certain details of both rules were omitted or unclear. The article also credited the sta...

Previous studies about unaccompanied refugee minors (URMs) showed that they are a highly vulnerable group who have greater psychiatric morbidity than the general population. This review focuses on mental health issues among URMs. Articles in databases PsycINFO, Medline and PubMed from 1998 to 2008 addressing this topic were reviewed. The literature had a considerable emphasis on the assessment ...

The UK is facing a major increase in the number of people seeking asylum each year, of whom approximately a quarter are children. The stressors to which refugees are exposed are described in three stages: (1) while in their country of origin; (2) during their flight to safety; and (3) when having to settle in a country of refuge. The evidence concerning the impact of displacement on children's ...

Malaria cases reported to the Minnesota Department of Health increased from 5 in 1988 to 76 in 1998, paralleling the number of immigrants to Minnesota. In 20% of cases, the Plasmodium species was not identified; 44% of cases were hospitalized. The public health community needs to reevaluate current recommendations for refugee screening, provider and patient education, and laboratory capacity.

Interviews with both refugees and organizational staff in two nonprofit refugee resettlement organizations in the United States reveal the ways in which knowledge(s) and expertise are crafted, threatened, and understood in refugee organizations. Refugee-participants described the need for knowledgeable communication, barriers to the communication of knowledge, and processes of negotiating whose...

Addressing increasing concerns about public health equity in the context of violent conflict and the consequent forced displacement of populations is complex. Important operational questions now faced by humanitarian agencies can to some extent be clarified by reference to relevant ethical theory. Priorities of service delivery, the allocation choices, and the processes by which they are arrive...

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...

Corresponding author: Reza Rostami, MD Assistant Professor, Department of Psychology, University of Tehran, P. O. Box 13145-1485, Iran. Tel: +98 21 61117477 Fax: +98 21 88988939 E-mail: [email protected] Objective: Wars' stress and violence can have tremendous effects on children's and adolescents' health and general well being; it may result in patterns of bio-psychosocial problems. The goal o...