Recent Resettlement of Southeast Asian Refugees in France

The Southeast Asian Refugees and Community Mental Health

This article provides a summary of the descriptive information currently available to community mental health workers about the Southeast Asian refugees, A brief overview of what is known about mental health and migration and refugee status is followed by a consideration of the psychological adjustment of the Southeast Asian refugees and then a description of recent mental health intervention s...

Metabolic syndrome: recent prevalence in East and Southeast Asian populations.

BACKGROUND The prevalence of the metabolic syndrome among a number of Asian populations as defined by several current criteria has been increasing rapidly and appears to resemble that among Western populations. METHODS We review 25 surveys of the metabolic syndrome in Asian populations (PR China, Hong Kong, Taiwan, Japan, Philippines, Singapore) that report adequate information published duri...

Multiple puncture skin test and mantoux test in Southeast Asian refugees.

Skin test reactions to PPD applied by Mantoux techniques were compared with reactions to tuberculin tine test (PPD-tine); tuberculin, old tine test (OT tine); Aplitest; and Mono-Vacc, tuberculin, old (Mono-Vacc) in newly arrived refugees from Cambodia and Laos. The reaction to Mantoux test was accepted as the "true reading" and compared to the reaction size to one of the multiple puncture tests...

The Resettlement Experiences of Refugees from El Salvador

From post-traumatic stress disorder to cultural bereavement: diagnosis of Southeast Asian refugees.

There are pitfalls in the singular application of western categories in diagnosing psychiatric disorders and distress among refugees. Based on my research with Cambodian refugees I argue that cultural bereavement, by mapping the subjective experience of refugees, gives meaning to the refugee's distress, clarifies the 'structure' of the person's reactions to loss, frames psychiatric disorder in ...