Ever since World War II, forced migrations have increased exponentially, shaping our world, economies, and political discussions. When the United Nations formed High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) in 1950, it could not predict escalation of migration from civil unrest, personal persecution, war, recently, climate crises. As increase, we must understand emotional trauma involved, how to mitig...

Trauma registries are a potential source of part of the data needed for comprehensive public health surveillance of injuries. Like other disease registries, those for trauma are used to collect, store and retrieve data describing the etiologic factors, demographic characteristics, diagnoses, treatments, and clinical outcomes of individuals who meet specified case criteria. In the U.S., the scop...