Displacement and health

Displacement and health.

The health needs of displaced populations vary widely. The question as to the demands displaced populations place on health care resources and health care providers in their destination countries or regions remains the subject of great debate and contention. Internationally, health care workers are faced with complex challenges in providing care to displaced populations. This paper highlights s...

Measuring the Displacement and Replacement of Government Health Expenditure

Research assessing the relationship between government health expenditure and development assistance for health channeled to governments (DAHG) has not considered that this relationship may depend on whether DAHG is increasing or decreasing. We explore this issue using general method of moments estimation and a panel of financial flows data spanning 119 countries and 16 years. Our primary conce...

Disability, displacement and public health: a vision for Haiti.

Refugees and internally displaced persons (IDPs) with disabilities are some of the most neglected and socially excluded groups within any population. Natural disasters are events that cause bodily harm resulting in disability and that result in the displacement of people. Many predict a continual increase of natural disasters in the future due to changing climates. People with disabilities cons...

The Effect of Displacement on Mental Health: Staying or Leaving?

In the last three decades, war, famines, natural disasters, and political upheaval have led many to be forced to migrate worldwide. In the 1970’s the number of refugees reached the estimate of 2.5 million, gradually increasing to 8.2 million within a decade, and by the 1990’s the number of refugees had reached 17 million [1]. As reported by the UNHCR (2013), the number of displaced has reached ...

The Effect of Job Displacement on Subsequent Health