Contributing Factors in Whether Displaced Households Want to Receive Humanitarian Information from Humanitarian Actors

Iraq Multi-Cluster Needs Assessment

Datos Bibliográficos

ID15514907
AutoresJin‐Won Noh (0000-0001-5172-4023, Yonsei University), Jooyoung Cheon (0000-0001-9622-0937, Sungshin Women's University), Kyoung-Beom Kim (0000-0002-1497-7037, Dankook University), Si Eun Song (0000-0002-3799-3160, Soonchunhyang University), Jiho Cha (0000-0003-1212-5671, Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology), Young Dae Kwon (0000-0002-8781-6832, Catholic University of Korea, autor de correspondencia)
Año2022
Volumen19
Número16
Páginas10114-10114
Fecha de publicación2022-08-16
Peer ReviewedSí
Open AccessSí
TipoARTICLE
RevistaInternational Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health (JOURNAL)
Identificadores de la revistaISSN: 1661-7827 • E-ISSN: 1660-4601
EditorialMultidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute (PUBLISHER • CH)
DOI10.3390/ijerph191610114
PMID36011749
OpenAlexW4292295151
IdiomaEN
Citas recibidas2
Referencias citadas16

Due to political conflict, insurgency, and the COVID-19, the number of displaced households in need of humanitarian support in Iraq has increased. This study investigated factors related to desire of displaced households to receive humanitarian information. Data from the eighth round of the Iraq Multi-Cluster Needs Assessment was used. We classified the household displacement status, identifying levels and types of humanitarian information that the households sought, together with whether the households were impacted by COVID-19. We identified safety and security, housing, water and electricity services, education, health care, and levels of humanitarian assistance resulted in significant differences between internally displaced person (IDP) and returnee households in terms of interest in receiving humanitarian information. The desire to receive humanitarian information was related to whether household members were unemployed due to COVID-19, displacement status, and walking time to reach the nearest health care facility and marketplace. Returnees and IDPs in Iraq are facing a new crisis. Their individual, structural, and environmental vulnerabilities are increasing commensurately. New strategies such as strategies using online or mobile communication that provide humanitarian information are needed to provide humanitarian information to vulnerable groups such as those who have lost jobs due to COVID-19, female heads of households, and those with health problems. In addition to traditional cash and voucher support, the use of the latest technologies such as smartphones and mobile clinics in humanitarian settings would be new strategies

Business · Displaced person · Economic growth · Economics · Humanitarian aid · Humanitarian crisis · Internally displaced person · Political science · Refugee · Socioeconomics · Global Maternal and Child Health · Health and Conflict Studies · Law · Migration, Health and Trauma