Alastair Ager
Datos Biográficos
| ID | 119175 |
|---|---|
| NOMBRE | Alastair Ager |
| NOMBRES | Alastair |
| APELLIDO | Ager |
| FIRMA | AGER A |
| AFILIACIONES | Queen Margaret University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-9474-3563 |
| VERIFICADO | Sí |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 73 |
| TOTAL DE CITAS | 1188 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 73 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN | 1994 |
| AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2026 |
| ÍNDICE H | 9 |
Challenges and opportunities to addressing non-communicable diseases after climate-related disasters in Mozambique
INTRODUCTION: Low- and middle-income countries are facing a new double burden: an increasing frequency of extreme weather events that disrupt healthcare services for people living with non-communicable diseases (NCDs) and a rising prevalence of NCDs. In Mozambique, NCDs are the second leading cause of death among adults, and climate-related disasters, occurring with increasing intensity, exacerbate this problem. OBJECTIVE: This study aims to unde…
The cultural adaptation of the Friendship Bench Intervention to address perinatal psychological distress in Sierra Leone
Through this systematic approach, we successfully culturally adapted the FBI for treating perinatal psychological distress in Sierra Leone. The next step is to evaluate it feasibility, acceptability, and preliminary effectiveness in perinatal care settings
Policy and practice implications of contextual understanding of - and tools to address - mental health and psychosocial support needs in Sierra Leone
The last two decades have seen increased awareness of the impact of mental health issues on the population of Sierra Leone. Local capacity to respond to these needs is severely limited. In 2017, the Ministry of Health and Sanitation (MoHS) worked with staff of the College of Medicine and Allied Health Sciences (COMAHS - part of the University of Sierra Leone) and Queen Margaret University (QMU) in Edinburgh - and other stakeholders, including mem…
Feasibility, acceptability and preliminary effectiveness of a culturally adapted nonspecialist delivery Problem-Solving Therapy
In low- and middle-income countries like Sierra Leone, there is a significant gap in the treatment of perinatal mental health disorders such as anxiety, depression and somatization. This study explored the feasibility, acceptability and preliminary effectiveness of a culturally adapted Problem-Solving Therapy – Friendship Bench Intervention (PST-FBI) delivered by nonspecialists, mother-to-mother support groups (MMSGs), to perinatal women experien…
Refugee integration in national health systems of low- and middle-income countries (LMICs)
This paper reviews evidence on healthcare responses for refugees, documenting the different approaches and their effectiveness and impact in particular in relation to supporting integrating refugees into national health systems. The review adopted a purposeful, iterative approach, utilizing electronic databases, grey literature, and reference lists from relevant studies. A total of 167 studies, primarily from low- and middle-income countries (LMI…
Fragile, handle with care
Karin Diaconu - ORCID: 0000-0002-5810-9725 https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5810-9725
Development of the Faith Community Child Protection Scale with Faith Leaders and their Spouses in Senegal, Uganda and Guatemala
Violence, abuse and neglect constitute major threats to children’s health and wellbeing globally. However, until recently, relatively little systematic attention has been paid to the role of faith communities in shaping the protective environment for children. This paper describes the development of a measure to capture child-protective disposition amongst faith communities through field studies with faith leaders and their spouses in Senegal, Ug…
Provision of mental health and psychosocial support services to health workers and community members in conflict-affected Northwest Syria
The study findings add to the evidence base on the challenges in scaling up MHPSS interventions and their long-term sustainability concerns. Priority actions should address the intermittent funding of the MHPSS response, incorporate MHPSS outputs and outcomes in the reimbursement of routine services, improve coordination between health partners and non-health actors in order to expand the scope of MHPSS response, and address the inequitable avail…
The determinants of the quality of clinical management among diabetic and hypertensive patients in a context of fragility
Introduction: The management of NCDs is a growing challenge in low- and middle-income settings with the increasing prevalence and the associated demands that such conditions make on health systems. Fragile settings both exacerbate the risk of NCDs and undermine systems capacity. Lebanon is a setting where strategies to address rising NCDs burden have faced particularly acute contextual challenges. Methods: We conducted a cross-sectional survey wi…
Understanding perceptions of recovery from psychological distress in Sierra Leone through qualitative comparative analysis
Qualitative comparative analysis (QCA) is a relatively new method that examines causal complexity. Its use in mental health research is nascent. In low-income and fragile settings, with weak mental health service provision, identifying pathways of recovery from psychological distress can inform the appropriate deployment of scarce community and public resources. This paper examines the use of QCA to identify predictors of recovery in Sierra Leone…
Annual Research Review
BACKGROUND: This paper revisits the themes of an influential 1993 review regarding the factors shaping the mental health and psychosocial well-being of refugees to take stock of developments in the evidence base and conceptualisation of issues for refugee children over the last 25 years. METHODS: The study deployed a systematic search strategy. This initially identified 784 papers, which was reduced to 65 studies following application of inclusio…
An analysis of policy and funding priorities of global actors regarding noncommunicable disease in low- and middle-income countries
BACKGROUND: Noncommunicable diseases (NCDs), including mental health, have become a major concern in low- and middle-income countries. Despite increased attention to them over the past decade, progress toward addressing NCDs has been slow. A lack of bold policy commitments has been suggested as one of the contributors to limited progress in NCD prevention and management. However, the policies of key global actors (bilateral, multilateral, and not…
Understanding the health needs of internally displaced persons
We seek to strengthen understanding of the health needs of internally displaced persons (IDPs) in contexts of conflict or violence. Based upon a scoping review, our paper identified limited evidence on IDP health, but nevertheless indicates that IDPs tend to experience worse health outcomes than other conflict-affected populations across a range of health issues; and this is due to the particularly vulnerable situation of IDPs relative to these o…
The development of a contextually appropriate measure of psychological distress in Sierra Leone
Together the SLPD and Function scales provide a locally-validated tool which will enable government bodies and local and international non-governmental organisations in Sierra Leone to assess mental health and psychosocial needs. This will support both effective service provision and the evaluation of initiatives designed to improve mental health and psychosocial wellbeing
Identifying opportunities to engage communities with social mobilisation activities to tackle NCDs in El Salvador in the context of the global Covid-19 pandemic
New mechanisms of fostering social mobilisation include virtual connectors such as mobile phones, which enable mobilisation through platforms such as WhatsApp, Facebook and Twitter. However, traditional forms of social mobilisation hold value for those without access to such technology. Therefore, a combination of new and traditional mechanisms for social mobilisation hold potential for the future development of social mobilisation strategies in …
Localisation in the Context of UK Government Engagement With the Humanitarian Reform Agenda
Localisation is a key element of the humanitarian reform agenda. However, there are continuing debates regarding its form and emphasis, linked to understandings of the local, the role of the state and the implications for interpretation of humanitarian principles of “de-internationalised” humanitarian response. This paper considers UK engagement with the localisation agenda, particularly through examination of the policies and programmes of the D…
Child Protection Practices and Attitudes of Faith Leaders Across Senegal, Uganda, and Guatemala
Faith leaders are well-positioned to address violence against children, but the extent to which they do so is unclear. This mixed-method study examined faith leaders’ child protection practices, attitudes towards child rights, and views around physical punishment in Senegal, Uganda, and Guatemala. Child protection practices—specifically listening to children and reporting abuse—were strongest among faith leaders in Uganda, although they also most…
Educational, psychosocial, and protection outcomes of child- and youth-focused programming with Somali refugees in Dollo Ado, Ethiopia
Child- and youth-friendly spaces have become a common feature of emergency humanitarian provision. This study reports on the outcomes of child and youth learning centres (CYLCs) in Ethiopia's Buramino Camp established for those fleeing conflict in Somalia. Eighty-five youths completed baseline assessments shortly after arrival and follow-up assessments three to six months later. Caregivers of 106 younger children completed similar appraisals. 693…
The role of trust in health-seeking for non-communicable disease services in fragile contexts
Non-communicable diseases (NCDs) disproportionately affect people living in fragile contexts marked by poor governance and health systems struggling to deliver quality services for the benefit of all. This combination can lead to the erosion of trust in the health system, affecting health-seeking behaviours and the ability of individuals to sustain their health. In this cross-country multiple-case study, we analyse the role of trust in health-see…
Expressions of psychological distress in Sierra Leone
Analysis supports calls to view mental health problems as a 'continuum of distress' rather than as discrete categories. This framing is coherent with opportunities for prevention and response in Sierra Leone which do not focus primarily on formal healthcare service providers but rather involve a range of community-based actors. It also enables attention to be paid to the identification of milder signs of distress with a view to early response and…
Improving mental health and psychosocial wellbeing in humanitarian settings
Major knowledge gaps remain concerning the most effective ways to address mental health and psychosocial needs of populations affected by humanitarian crises. The Research for Health in Humanitarian Crisis (R2HC) program aims to strengthen humanitarian health practice and policy through research. As a significant portion of R2HC's research has focused on mental health and psychosocial support interventions, the program has been interested in stre…
Measuring the psychosocial, biological, and cognitive signatures of profound stress in humanitarian settings
Our work shows the value of rigorous research in humanitarian settings, emphasizing relevance for local communities and meaningful ways to build research ownership. Findings encourage the adoption of cognitive measures and stress biomarkers alongside self-report surveys in evaluating programme impacts. High-quality scientific research with youth can be feasible, useful, and ethical in humanitarian settings
Evaluating the reliability and validity of secondary reporting to measure gender-based violence in conflict and disaster
For prevalence of GBV, secondary reporting about neighbors can serve as a useful adjunct to standard survey methodology. Findings offer important initial insights into the consistency and accuracy of secondary reporting as a tool for field epidemiologists in humanitarian settings
The Effect of Psychological First Aid Training on Knowledge and Understanding about Psychosocial Support Principles
Psychological first aid (PFA) is a world-wide implemented approach to helping people affected by an emergency, disaster, or other adverse event. Controlled evaluations of PFA's training effects are lacking. We evaluated the effectiveness of a one-day PFA training on the acquisition and retention of knowledge of appropriate responses and skills in the acute aftermath of adversity in Peripheral Health Units (PHUs) in post-Ebola Sierra Leone. Second…
Local faith communities and the promotion of resilience in humanitarian situations
Understanding Integration
Integration has become both a key policy objective related to the resettlement of refugees and other migrants, and a matter of significant public discussion. Coherent policy development and productive public debate are, however, both threatened by the fact that the concept of integration is used with widely differing meanings. Based on review of attempted definitions of the term, related literature and primary fieldwork in settings of refugee set…
Refugee Integration
This paper uses the foundation of the conceptual framework proposed by Ager and Strang (2004a, 2008) to reflect on the focus and findings of papers in this special issue on refugee integration and other recent work. Arguing that ‘mid-level theory’ of the sort presented in the framework provides a strong basis for structuring academic debate and dialogue with practitioners and policymakers, we identify four key issues that although of some current…
Resilience in Context
Validated measures are needed for assessing resilience in conflict settings. An Arabic version of the Child and Youth Resilience Measure (CYRM) was developed and tested in Jordan. Following qualitative work, surveys were implemented with male/female, refugee/nonrefugee samples (N = 603, 11-18 years). Confirmatory factor analyses tested three-factor structures for 28- and 12-item CYRMs and measurement equivalence across groups. CYRM-12 showed meas…
Faith and the Discourse of Secular Humanitarianism
This article argues that functional secularism frames the discourse of contemporary humanitarianism. While in principal ‘neutral' to religion, in practice this framing serves to marginalize religious language, practice and experience in both the global and local conceptualization of humanitarian action. Illustrated with examples from a range of humanitarian contexts, it is argued that the resulting discourse fosters a humanitarian response that i…
Local Faith Communities and the Promotion of Resilience in Contexts of Humanitarian Crisis
The potential role of local faith communities (LFCs) in promoting resilience in contexts of humanitarian crisis has, despite recent policy interest, been a neglected area of study. This article reports on a structured review of evidence regarding such contributions based on an analysis of 302 publications and reports, supplemented by 11 written submissions from humanitarian non-governmental organizations (NGOs) and 10 stakeholder interviews. Anal…
Resilience capacities of health systems
NGOs and Innovation
Outside Looking In? Studies of the Community Integration of People with Learning Disabilities
The paper reviews research exploring the degree of community integration of people with learning disabilities. In the majority of studies reviewed 'integration' is measured in terms of the activities undertaken within the community and/or the character of personal and social relationships. Although in much of the work the focus on these indicators of outcome is informed by the value assumptions embodied in the principle of normalisation, the pape…
The co-construction of medical humanitarianism
Psychosocial distress of Tibetans in exile
Cultural and Spiritual Constructions of Mental Distress and Associated Coping Mechanisms of Tibetans in Exile
Cultural and Spiritual Constructions of Mental Distress and Associated Coping Mechanisms of Tibetans in Exile: Implications for Western Interventions Eshani Ruwanpura, Eshani Ruwanpura Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Stewart W. Mercer, Stewart W. Mercer Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Alastair Ager, Alastair Ager Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Acad…
Community Contact and Mental Health amongst Socially Isolated Refugees in Edinburgh
The availability of familial and broader social networks has been proposed as a significant influence on mental health outcomes for resettling refugees. This small-scale local study considered the experience and adjustment of 26 refugees and asylum-seekers resettling in Edinburgh who had been identified as at particular risk of social isolation. While 92 per cent of refugees reported having social contact outside the home, only 19 per cent had es…
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Using the 'protective environment' framework to analyse children's protection needs in Darfur
A major humanitarian concern during the continuing crisis in Darfur, Sudan, has been the protection of children, although there has been little in the way of comprehensive analysis to guide intervention. Founded on a situational analysis conducted between October 2005 and March 2006, this paper documents the significant threats to children's well-being directly linked to the political conflict. It demonstrates the role of non-conflict factors in …
Toward a culturally sensitive conceptualization of resilience
Resilience research with war-affected populations has long conceptualized resilience as the absence of psychopathology and operationalized it by use of standardized measures. However, literature on resilience increasingly highlights the importance of also including indicators of positively valued functioning as well as contextually sensitive indicators of resilience. This study used a participatory approach to examine the contextual conceptualiza…
Measuring violence against women amidst war and displacement in northern Uganda using the “neighbourhood method”
BACKGROUND: Gender-based violence is viewed as a significant problem in conflict-affected regions throughout the world. However, humanitarian organizations typically have been unable to reliably estimate the incidence of rape, intimate partner violence and other forms of sexual abuse in such settings. Such estimates are required to inform programming in contexts such as northern Uganda. METHODS: We sought to establish incidence rates for gender-b…
Where there is no intervention
The last decade has been marked by increasing attention to rigor in the evaluation of interventions that seek to promote the mental health and psychosocial well-being of children in crisis contexts. One of the key markers of such rigor has been the increased adoption of strong quasi-experimental designs, where children receiving an intervention are compared to children not receiving the intervention. Although usually not randomly assigned to such…
Patterns of health service utilization and perceptions of needs and services in rural Orissa
Despite emphasis on strengthening local health care provision, concern remains regarding the rates of utilization of state-provided services within Orissa. The reported study examined patterns of service utilization across the rural population of four districts of Orissa, with special reference to perceptions of the availability and quality of state services at the primary care level. Within the selected districts, 219 interviews were conducted a…
The Differential Experience of Mozambican Refugee Women and Men
Journal Article The Differential Experience of Mozambican Refugee Women and Men Get access ALASTAIR AGER, ALASTAIR AGER 1Queen Margaret CollegeEdinburgh Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar WENDY AGER, WENDY AGER 2Johns Hopkins University Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar LYNELLYN LONG LYNELLYN LONG 2Johns Hopkins University Search for other works by this author on: Oxford…
Localisation in the Context of UK Government Engagement With the Humanitarian Reform Agenda
Localisation is a key element of the humanitarian reform agenda. However, there are continuing debates regarding its form and emphasis, linked to understandings of the local, the role of the state and the implications for interpretation of humanitarian principles of “de-internationalised” humanitarian response. This paper considers UK engagement with the localisation agenda, particularly through examination of the policies and programmes of the D…
The role of trust in health-seeking for non-communicable disease services in fragile contexts
Non-communicable diseases (NCDs) disproportionately affect people living in fragile contexts marked by poor governance and health systems struggling to deliver quality services for the benefit of all. This combination can lead to the erosion of trust in the health system, affecting health-seeking behaviours and the ability of individuals to sustain their health. In this cross-country multiple-case study, we analyse the role of trust in health-see…
Mental Health and Psychosocial Support in Humanitarian Emergencies in Africa
View correction statement:Corrigendum Notes1. This paper was prepared while the first and third authors were Visiting Scholars at Fuller Theological Seminary. A version of this paper was presented as the lecture "Resilience, Faith and Psychosocial Support: Competing or Complementary Visions?' within Fuller's Center for Missiological Research, Fall Missiology Lecture Series, on November 14, 2013.2. See mhpss.net.3. "Religion" and "faith" were cons…
Children and fighting forces
It is 10 years since the adoption of the Cape Town Principles and Best Practices on the Prevention of Recruitment of Children into the Armed Forces and on Demobilization and Social Reintegration of Child Soldiers in Africa. The field of programming for the reintegration of children associated with armed forces and armed groups has made significant strides in this period. However, important gaps in the knowledge base remain. This paper examines em…
Understanding fragility
Advances in population health outcomes risk being slowed—and potentially reversed—by a range of threats increasingly presented as ‘fragility’. Widely used and critiqued within the development arena, the concept is increasingly used in the field of global health, where its relationship to population health, health service delivery, access and utilization is poorly specified. We present the first scoping review seeking to clarify the meaning, defin…
Sustainable Development and Religion
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A comparison of chamba (marijuana) abusers and general psychiatric admissions in Malawi
The Differential Experience of Mozambican Refugee Women and Men
Journal Article The Differential Experience of Mozambican Refugee Women and Men Get access ALASTAIR AGER, ALASTAIR AGER 1Queen Margaret CollegeEdinburgh Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar WENDY AGER, WENDY AGER 2Johns Hopkins University Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar LYNELLYN LONG LYNELLYN LONG 2Johns Hopkins University Search for other works by this author on: Oxford…
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Outside Looking In? Studies of the Community Integration of People with Learning Disabilities
The paper reviews research exploring the degree of community integration of people with learning disabilities. In the majority of studies reviewed 'integration' is measured in terms of the activities undertaken within the community and/or the character of personal and social relationships. Although in much of the work the focus on these indicators of outcome is informed by the value assumptions embodied in the principle of normalisation, the pape…
NGOs and Innovation
Health Psychology in Global Perspective
Moving home
This paper reports on variation in the cost and social outcomes of provision for clients with learning disabilities, resettled across different models of community accommodation; identifying personal and service-related characteristics influential on such variation. The study was conducted to inform the community reprovisioning strategy associated with the phased closure of the Gogarburn and Tornaveen learning disability hospitals in the Lothian …
Community Contact and Mental Health amongst Socially Isolated Refugees in Edinburgh
The availability of familial and broader social networks has been proposed as a significant influence on mental health outcomes for resettling refugees. This small-scale local study considered the experience and adjustment of 26 refugees and asylum-seekers resettling in Edinburgh who had been identified as at particular risk of social isolation. While 92 per cent of refugees reported having social contact outside the home, only 19 per cent had es…
Mental health in complex emergencies
Children and Youth on the Front Line
Conceptualizing community development in war-affected populations
The focus of humanitarian and development assistance to post-conflict societies has in recent years typically broadened from narrow socioeconomic concerns to address broader mechanisms of social and psychological recovery within war-affected populations. Interventions seeking to assist in such recovery are, however, frequently contested in terms of aims and approach. Competing discourses regarding such support for communities are identified, and …
Patterns of health service utilization and perceptions of needs and services in rural Orissa
Despite emphasis on strengthening local health care provision, concern remains regarding the rates of utilization of state-provided services within Orissa. The reported study examined patterns of service utilization across the rural population of four districts of Orissa, with special reference to perceptions of the availability and quality of state services at the primary care level. Within the selected districts, 219 interviews were conducted a…
Psychosocial distress of Tibetans in exile
Cultural and Spiritual Constructions of Mental Distress and Associated Coping Mechanisms of Tibetans in Exile
Cultural and Spiritual Constructions of Mental Distress and Associated Coping Mechanisms of Tibetans in Exile: Implications for Western Interventions Eshani Ruwanpura, Eshani Ruwanpura Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Stewart W. Mercer, Stewart W. Mercer Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Alastair Ager, Alastair Ager Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Acad…
Understanding Integration
Integration has become both a key policy objective related to the resettlement of refugees and other migrants, and a matter of significant public discussion. Coherent policy development and productive public debate are, however, both threatened by the fact that the concept of integration is used with widely differing meanings. Based on review of attempted definitions of the term, related literature and primary fieldwork in settings of refugee set…
At the Margins of the World
Several years ago David Turton, then Director of the Refugee Studies Centre, Oxford, expressed dismay at the choice of the term ‘The Refugee Experience’ for a package of learning materials drawn together by Maryanne Loughry and myself. Happy enough with the materials themselves, Turton feared the phrase suggested a naïve, homogenized account of the lives of forced migrants across the globe that ignored the powerful cultural, political and economi…
Children and fighting forces
It is 10 years since the adoption of the Cape Town Principles and Best Practices on the Prevention of Recruitment of Children into the Armed Forces and on Demobilization and Social Reintegration of Child Soldiers in Africa. The field of programming for the reintegration of children associated with armed forces and armed groups has made significant strides in this period. However, important gaps in the knowledge base remain. This paper examines em…
Using the 'protective environment' framework to analyse children's protection needs in Darfur
A major humanitarian concern during the continuing crisis in Darfur, Sudan, has been the protection of children, although there has been little in the way of comprehensive analysis to guide intervention. Founded on a situational analysis conducted between October 2005 and March 2006, this paper documents the significant threats to children's well-being directly linked to the political conflict. It demonstrates the role of non-conflict factors in …
Sealing the Past, Facing the Future
This paper reports on an evaluation of a program in Sierra Leone that sought to support the community reintegration of young women and girls formerly associated with armed groups and forces. In the absence of baseline data, we used locally-derived indicators of reintegration and village timelines to conduct a retrospective cohort study of the progress of 142 girls and young women towards achievement of community reintegration following their expe…
Refugee Integration
This paper uses the foundation of the conceptual framework proposed by Ager and Strang (2004a, 2008) to reflect on the focus and findings of papers in this special issue on refugee integration and other recent work. Arguing that ‘mid-level theory’ of the sort presented in the framework provides a strong basis for structuring academic debate and dialogue with practitioners and policymakers, we identify four key issues that although of some current…
Measuring violence against women amidst war and displacement in northern Uganda using the “neighbourhood method”
BACKGROUND: Gender-based violence is viewed as a significant problem in conflict-affected regions throughout the world. However, humanitarian organizations typically have been unable to reliably estimate the incidence of rape, intimate partner violence and other forms of sexual abuse in such settings. Such estimates are required to inform programming in contexts such as northern Uganda. METHODS: We sought to establish incidence rates for gender-b…
A Systematic Review of Prevalence Studies of Gender-Based Violence in Complex Emergencies
Current methods to estimate the incidence of gender-based violence in complex emergencies tend to rely on nonprobability samples. Population-based monitoring is undertaken relatively infrequently. This article provides a systematic review of published literature that represents attempts to quantify the magnitude of gender-based violence in emergency settings. Searches adopted a Boolean procedure, which led to initial selection of material that wa…
Faith and the Discourse of Secular Humanitarianism
This article argues that functional secularism frames the discourse of contemporary humanitarianism. While in principal ‘neutral' to religion, in practice this framing serves to marginalize religious language, practice and experience in both the global and local conceptualization of humanitarian action. Illustrated with examples from a range of humanitarian contexts, it is argued that the resulting discourse fosters a humanitarian response that i…
Mapping the key issues shaping the landscape of global public health
A survey of global health experts attending an invited meeting provided a means to map key issues perceived to be shaping emerging global public health agendas. Eighty-five participants proposed three major issues likely to have the most significant impact on the field of global health in the coming years. Six raters grouped the resultant items, with multi-dimensional scaling (MDS) analysis producing a composite two-dimensional map depicting the …
Engendering Migrant Health
Any discussion with and about forced migrants in contexts of resettlement will, sooner or later, touch upon issues of health. Displacement brings with it many health risks, as well as difficulties in negotiating access to available health services. Such challenges are central to much refugee discourse, involving accounts of disease, interactions with health providers, financial hardships hindering utilization, etc. Health is thus in and of itself…
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