Excluding Livestock Livelihoods in Refugee Responses: A Risk to Public Health

Public health equity in refugee situations

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...

International Public Health Responses to COVID-19 Outbreak: A Rapid Review

Background: The outbreak of Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) has posed a significant threat to many countries. Since the disease does not currently have a particular treatment, there is a compelling need to find substitute means to dominate its expansion. In this rapid review, we aimed to determine some countries’ public responses to the COVID-19 epidemic.Methods: In this study, academ...

Livestock and livelihoods: Development goals and indicators applied to Senegal

In this report, we present a series of empirical techniques to examine linkage between livestock and livelihood, using data from Senegal, a West African economy with high levels of smallholder poverty and livestock dependence. Our results for this country show that livestock dependent populations are more likely to be poor and the severity of their poverty is greater, yet the same reliance on l...

Mandatory detention of refugee children: A public health issue?

1Department of Psychiatry, McGill University; 2Research Institute of the McGill University Health Institute, and CSSS de la Montagne, Montreal, Quebec Correspondence: Dr Rachel Kronick, Department of Psychiatry, McGill University, 1033 Pine Avenue West, Montreal, Quebec H3A 1A1. Telephone 514-273-3800 ext 6593, fax 514-380-8147, e-mail [email protected] Accepted for publication Sept...

Public Health Equity in Refugee and Other Displaced Persons Settings