نتایج جستجو برای: refugees

تعداد نتایج: 7625  

Journal: :Australian health review : a publication of the Australian Hospital Association 2017
Catherine Harding Alexa Seal Geraldine Duncan Alison Gilmour

Objective Despite the recognition that refugees should have equitable access to healthcare services, this presents considerable challenges, particularly in rural and regional areas. Because general practitioners (GPs) are critical to resettlement for refugees and play a crucial role in understanding their specific health and social issues, it is important to know more about the needs of GPs.Met...

2016
Yu Jin Lee Jin Yong Jun Juhyun Park Soohyun Kim Ah Reum Gwak So Hee Lee So Young Yoo Seog Ju Kim

OBJECTIVE We investigated the performance of North Korean refugees on attention tasks, and the relationship between that performance and psychiatric symptoms. METHODS Sustained and divided attention was assessed using the computerized Comprehensive Attention Test in North Korean refugees and in South Koreans. All participants also completed the Beck Depression Inventory, the Beck Anxiety Inve...

2017
Hélio Manhica Karl Gauffin Ylva B Almquist Mikael Rostila Lisa Berg Ainhoa Rodríguez García de Cortázar Anders Hjern

BACKGROUND Psychological distress and lack of family support may explain the mental health problems that are consistently found in young unaccompanied refugees in Western countries. Given the strong relationship between poor mental health and alcohol misuse, this study investigated hospital admissions due to alcohol related disorders among accompanied and unaccompanied young refugees who settle...

Background and Objectives: Refugees are often further susceptible to food insecurity in host countries. This study was carried out to review food insecurity statuses of Afghan refugees in Iran. Materials and Methods: A comprehensive search was carried out using keywords of "food insecurity", "food security", "Iran", "Afghan", “immigrant” and "refugee" in English databases, including Scopus, We...

2016
Ursel Heudorf Sabine Albert-Braun Klaus-Peter Hunfeld Franz-Ulrich Birne Jörg Schulze Klaus Strobel Knut Petscheleit Volkhard A. J. Kempf Christian Brandt

INTRODUCTION The refugee crisis is a great challenge to the social and healthcare system in European countries, especially in Germany. An abundance of data has been published on the refugees' health problems (infections as well as physical diseases and psychiatric problems) and their prevention (i.e., sanitary and vaccination programs). However, data on prevalences of multidrug-resistant organi...

2015
Kevin C. Scott Eboni M. Taylor Blain Mamo Nathaniel D. Herr Peter J. Cronkright Katherine Yun Marc Altshuler Sharmila Shetty

Globally, more than two billion persons have been infected at some time with the hepatitis B virus (HBV), and approximately 3.5 million refugees have chronic HBV infection. The endemicity of HBV varies by region. Because chronic hepatitis B is infectious and persons with chronic infection benefit from treatment, CDC recommends screening for HBV among all refugees who originate in countries wher...

2009
Vanessa Johnston Pascale Allotey Kim Mulholland Milica Markovic

BACKGROUND Human rights violations have adverse consequences for health. However, to date, there remains little empirical evidence documenting this association, beyond the obvious physical and psychological effects of torture. The primary aim of this study was to investigate whether Australian asylum policies and practices, which arguably violate human rights, are associated with adverse health...

2018
Robert Häsler Christian Kautz Ateequr Rehman Rainer Podschun Volker Gassling Pius Brzoska Jon Sherlock Jan-Thorsten Gräsner Gesine Hoppenstedt Sabine Schubert Astrid Ferlinz Wolfgang Lieb Matthias Laudes Femke-Anouska Heinsen Jens Scholz Dag Harmsen Andre Franke Swantje Eisend Thomas Kunze Helmut Fickenscher Stephan Ott Philip Rosenstiel Stefan Schreiber

BACKGROUND Multidrug-resistant bacteria represent a substantial global burden for human health, potentially fuelled by migration waves: in 2015, 476,649 refugees applied for asylum in Germany mostly as a result of the Syrian crisis. In Arabic countries, multiresistant bacteria cause significant problems for healthcare systems. Currently, no data exist describing antibiotic resistances in health...

2015
Molly Pace Maziar M. Nourian Akiko Kamimura

Some of refugees, who were forced to move out from a home country due to political or religious conflicts, war or natural or manmade disasters, resettle in another country. Resettlement in another country is challenging as refugees suffer from a number of mental and physical health problems. Under the Refugee Act of 1980, the United State (US) governments provide medical assistance as well as f...

2013
Anna-Clara Hollander

The aim of this PhD project was to increase knowledge, using population-based registers, of how pre- and post-migration factors and social determinants of health are associated with inequalities in poor mental health and mortality among refugees and other immigrants to Sweden. Study I and II had cross-sectional designs and used logistic regression analysis to study differences in poor mental he...

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