BACKGROUND Breast cancer accounts for 19-34% of all cancer cases among women in India. There is a high mortality due to late stage diagnosis as patients usually present at an advanced stage because of lack of awareness and non-existent breast cancer screening programs. Aim : To determine the awareness about breast cancer among women in an urban resettlement colony in Delhi. SETTINGS AND DESIG...

T he average smallholder farmer in Malawi is tasked to feed a family of five on a farm of less than one hectare in size (NSO, 2008). The intensification of land through, for example, fertilizer use plays a prominent role in Malawi’s policy to increase the productivity potential of smallholder farmers. With the population almost doubling in the last twenty years (NSO, 2008), additional measures ...

In the past decade a political and economic crisis has unfolded in Zimbabwe, resulting in two-digit negative growth rates, sky-rocketing inflation, decline in the rule of law and a disintegration of markets, notably rural input, output and labour markets. There has been little or no primary data collection to document the effects of these crises on the livelihoods of smallholder farmers. This p...

BACKGROUND There is no long-term prospective study (>20 years) of the mental health of any refugee group. AIMS To investigate the long-term course and predictors of psychological distress among Vietnamese refugees in Norway. METHOD Eighty Vietnamese refugees, 57% of the original cohort previously interviewed in 1982 (T(1)) and 1985 (T(2)), completed a self-report questionnaire prior to a se...

What follows is an expanded version of the statistical section from Chapter 3 of The Future of Large Dams: Dealing with Social, Environmental, Institutional and Political Costs. It presents a statistical analysis of resettlement outcomes associated with 50 dams in areas of the world where most future dams will be built. Living standards improved in only three of 44 cases where there was suffici...

Abstract What role does religion play in the displacement, resettlement, and integration of refugees who are brought into United States? This chapter examines an ongoing initiative, Religion Resettlement Project (RRP), that takes as its central premise idea is a critical aspect for understanding refugees’ mental health civic lives, fostering civil society, conceptualizing long-term displacement...

INTRODUCTION The Australian Government encourages the regional settlement of refugees and it is expected that 45% of refugees to Australia be regionally located. Wagga Wagga, an inland regional city in New South Wales (NSW), a destination for both primary and secondary migration, offers settlement for refugees under the Australian Integrated Humanitarian Settlement Strategy (IHSS) and the Settl...

BACKGROUND As almost half of all refugees currently under United Nations protection are from Afghanistan or Iraq and significant numbers have already been resettled outside the region of origin, it is likely that future research will examine their resettlement needs. A number of methodological challenges confront researchers working with culturally and linguistically diverse groups; however, fe...

A time to refocus I suspect that many rheumatologists in the UK are unaware that the origins of our speciality were closely bound up with government schemes to improve employment opportunities. The Second World War left behind injured servicemen and women and civilians; repairing both physical and mental damage was a priority. Large numbers of injured and unemployed workers needed assistance at...