Temporalities of Resettlement: Date‐Waiting for an American Future in a Bhutanese Refugee Camp in Nepal

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Retika Adhikari
Keyword(s):  
Refugee Camp ◽  
Bhutanese Refugee

Trauma and loss as determinants of medically unexplained epidemic illness in a Bhutanese refugee camp

2001 ◽  
Vol 31 (7) ◽  
pp. 1259-1267 ◽  
Author(s):  
M. VAN OMMEREN ◽  
B. SHARMA ◽  
I. KOMPROE ◽  
B. N. POUDYAL ◽  
G. K. SHARMA ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Refugee Camp ◽  
Demographic Variables ◽  
Personal Factors ◽  
Early Loss ◽  
Hierarchical Logistic Regression ◽  
Medically Unexplained ◽  
Case Status ◽  
Bhutanese Refugee ◽  
Control Study ◽  
Acute Anxiety

Background. We sought to identify personal factors that placed people at risk during an epidemic of medically unexplained illness in a Bhutanese refugee camp in southeastern Nepal.Methods. We conducted a case–control study, involving 68 cases and 66 controls. Caseness was defined as experiencing at least one attack of medically unexplained fainting or dizziness during the time of the epidemic. We performed hierarchical logistic regression analysis to identify significant predictors of case status.Results. In terms of Western psychiatric constructs, the illness involved somatoform symptoms of both acute anxiety and dissociation. Sixty per cent reported visual and 28% reported auditory hallucinatory experiences. Cases and controls were similar on all demographic variables, school performance, number of attacks witnessed and psychopathology before the onset of the epidemic. Recent loss, early loss, childhood trauma and pulse-rate were predictors of case status.Conclusion. We identified trauma, early loss and, especially, recent loss as predictors of attacks during medically unexplained epidemic illness in a Bhutanese refugee community.

Environmental sanitation for the control of cholera in Lisungwi Refugee Camp, Malawi

Waterlines ◽  
1994 ◽  
Vol 12 (4) ◽  
pp. 9-11 ◽  
Author(s):  
Francis Mulemba ◽  
Pierre Nabeth
Keyword(s):  
Refugee Camp ◽  
Environmental Sanitation

The Baqubah Refugee Camp

2006 ◽  
Author(s):  
H. H. Austin
Keyword(s):  
Refugee Camp

scholarly journals Long-Term Physical Health Outcomes of Resettled Refugee Populations in the United States: A Scoping Review

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Gayathri S. Kumar ◽  
Jenna A. Beeler ◽  
Emma E. Seagle ◽  
Emily S. Jentes
Keyword(s):  
Health Outcomes ◽  
Physical Health ◽  
Public Health Practice ◽  
The United States ◽  
Inclusion Criteria ◽  
Physical Health Outcomes ◽  
Increased Risk ◽  
The Us ◽  
Bhutanese Refugee

AbstractSeveral studies describe the health of recently resettled refugee populations in the US beyond the first 8 months after arrival. This review summarizes the results of these studies. Scientific articles from five databases published from January 2008 to March 2019 were reviewed. Articles were included if study subjects included any of the top five US resettlement populations during 2008–2018 and if data described long-term physical health outcomes beyond the first 8 months after arrival in the US. Thirty-three studies met the inclusion criteria (1.5%). Refugee adults had higher odds of having a chronic disease compared with non-refugee immigrant adults, and an increased risk for diabetes compared with US-born controls. The most commonly reported chronic diseases among Iraqi, Somali, and Bhutanese refugee adults included diabetes and hypertension. Clinicians should consider screening and evaluating for chronic conditions in the early resettlement period. Further evaluations can build a more comprehensive, long-term health profile of resettled refugees to inform public health practice.

Acceptability of urine diversion dry toilets in Dollo Ado refugee camp, Ethiopia

2021 ◽  
Vol 234 ◽  
pp. 113745
Author(s):  
Molly Patrick ◽  
Yegerem Tsige ◽  
Ahmed Adow ◽  
Mohamed Abdirashid ◽  
Hassan Yunis ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Refugee Camp ◽  
Urine Diversion
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