The Health of Refugees

Professor Pascale Allotey is the Director of the United Nations University International Institute for Global Health (UNU-IIGH), the UN think tank on global health which addresses, among other things the policy implications of populations on the move. She has a multidisciplinary background in clinical health sciences, anthropology, and epidemiology. Her research has focused on sexual and reproductive health and rights, health equity, health and human rights, gender and social determinants of health, forced migration and marginalisation, infectious diseases, and non-communicable diseases. She has worked across four continents to promote health and well-being with a focus on engagement of communities.Daniel D Reidpath is Professor of Population health and founding Director of the South-East Asia Community Observatory, a demographic and health surveillance site and community based research platform of Monash University in Malaysia. Daniel is a Social Epidemiologist and has worked extensively in the measurement of population health, health systems, social marginalisation, social stigma and equity. He has extensive research experience across Asia, Africa and the Pacific and has pioneered technologies for community surveillance and health assessments in rural and remote communities. He has published extensively in medical sociology, public health, epidemiology, and biostatistics.

• Part 1: Concepts and Context 1: Pascale Allotey, Daniel D Reidpath: Forced migration, globalisation and global public health 2: Susan Kneebone: Humanitarianism, Refugees, Human Rights and Health 3: Daniel D Reidpath, Pascale Allotey: Social exclusion, othering and refugee health policy 4: Michael Toole: Health in humanitarian crises Part 2: Health Concerns 5: Kudzai Kanhutu, Karin Leder, Beverley Ann Biggs: Populations in transition and post-settlement: an infectious diseases and travel medicine perspective 6: Peter Ventevogel, Xavier Pereira, Sharuna Verghis, Derrick Silove: Mental health of refugees Part 3: Impacts of Displacement 7: Sharuna Verghis, Susheela Balasundram: Urban refugees: The hidden population 8: Rajat Khosla, Sandra Krause, Mihoko Tanabe: Addressing the rights of women in conflict and humanitarian settings 9: Susan Bissell, Jacqueline Bhabha, Paul B. Spiegel: The health challenges facing children on the move 10: Anushka Ataullahjan, Michelle F. Gaffey, Paul B. Spiegel, Zulfiqar A. Bhutta: The health impacts of displacement due to conflict on adolescents Part 4: Case Studies in Research and Ethics 11: Veena Pillai, Alison Mosier-Mills, Kaveh Khoshnood: Methodological and ethical challenges in research with forcibly displaced populations 12: Celia McMichael, Caitlin Nunn: Conducting health research with resettled refugees in Australia: field sites, ethics and methods 13: Michael Grodin, Sondra Crosby, George Annas: The Politics of immigrant and refugee health in the United States 14: Deborah Zion: Dual loyalty, medical ethics and healthcare in offshore asylum seeker detention Part 5: Conclusion 15: Pascale Allotey, Peter Mares, Daniel D Reidpath: Controlling compassion: The media, refugees, and asylum seekers

This book is an invaluable, authoritative and insightful resource for the study of the responses to the health problems of refugees providing, with multiple examples, an excellent reference for many different individuals and bodies involved in developing a response to the health problems of refugees.