BACKGROUND Construction of the Nam Theun 2 hydroelectric project and flooding of a 450 km(2) area of mountain plateau in south-central Lao PDR resulted in the resettlement of 6,300 people to newly built homes. We examined whether new houses would have altered risk of house entry by mosquitoes compared with traditional homes built from poorer construction materials. METHODOLOGY/PRINCIPAL FINDI...

Religious entities play significant roles in the current refugee/ forced migration crisis. These roles include innovative and experience based ideas to address broken aspects of the humanitarian system, overall advocacy on behalf of refugees and migrants based on humanitarian and spiritual principles, direct action in refugee camps and communities, action in communities that refugees and migran...

This study aimed to address a significant gap in the literature by investigating how Women of Refugee Background (WoRB) conceptualise resilience and identify factors that WoRB endorse as contributing their wellbeing coping during resettlement. Qualitative interviews were conducted with group 21 individuals (nine 12 service providers). Thematic analysis identified struggled define resilience, en...

_ Before I begin to describe the aims of the work of civil resettlement as it affects repatriated prisoners of ^ar in the Army, I should explain my own position. | am a serving soldier and I have little or no knowledge of psychology or psychiatry, other than the experience I have had since I have been put in charge of this work. I will, however, try to give an accurate description of the organi...

China is home to nearly half of the world’s 50,000 large dams, which provide irrigation, flood protection, and hydroelectricity. Most of these projects involve substantial population displacement, which can disrupt social capital, the webs of interdependence and support that community members maintain with one another through relationships of trust and reciprocity. We use new empirical evidence...

INTRODUCTION The extent that the dual burden of undernutrition and overnutrition affects refugee children before resettlement in the US is not well described. OBJECTIVE To describe the prevalence of wasting, stunting, overweight, and obesity among refugee children ages 0-10 years at their overseas medical screening examination prior to resettlement in Washington State (WA), and to compare the...

introduction post-disaster quality of life (qol) assessment can be considered appropriately for monitoring and evaluation recovery plans and interventions. particular reference has been considered to both understanding various aspects of the disaster’s impacts, and establishing people’s perceptions on their living circumstances and life chances after the event. planned and involuntary resettlem...