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Refugee-led organisations (RLOs) fill public health assistance gaps during COVID-19. Refugees do and can provide public health information and supplement capacity gaps. Refugees do and can deliver healthcare, shape social norms, track viruses/contacts. Mechanisms are needed to identify RLOs, offer funding, and build their capacities. The COVID-19 pandemic and ensuing socioeconomic impact on already marginalised…
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Disaster preparedness efforts and the need for disaster-prepared communities in San José have substantially increased the need for more involvement at the community level. This project is a collaboration with Japantown Prepared and Hensley Historic District to understand how to build a stronger, more cohesive community through disaster preparedness. I explored how risk perception and…
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Deemed by the federal government as “essential” to the country, immigrant field and dairy workers were told to keep working despite statewide stay-at-home directives in New York State. Undocumented workers that might choose not to comply would risk the loss of employment (with no access to unemployment benefits due to their immigration status) and eviction…
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COVID-19 management in reception centers for refugees, asylum seekers, and migrants Strategies to mitigate COVID-19 in vulnerable refugee populations Outbreak response to COVID-19 in reception centers in Spain 2020 Priorities when managing COVID-19 in refugee settings before the vaccines Shortly after the declaration of the COVID-19 pandemic, governments around the world were urged to leave…
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Aim: To assess immigrants’ disaster preparedness and determine the related factors. Methods: Two authors independently searched PubMed, Medical Literature Analysis and Retrieval System Online, Cumulative Index to Nursing and Allied Health Literature, Citation Information by the National Institute of Informatics, Japan Medical Abstracts Society, Web of Science, PsycINFO, Cochrane Library, and Google Scholar. Studies that…
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OBJECTIVESTo examine outbreak response-associated costs, lessons learned, and challenges encountered during a local health department’s response to a mumps outbreak.DESIGNWe conducted semistructured interviews with individuals directly involved in the response to a mumps outbreak and analyzed outbreak response-associated cost data.SETTINGIn March-July 2018, a mumps outbreak occurred in Chester County, Pennsylvania. The outbreak primarily affected an…
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Young people from refugee backgrounds represent an important resource for disaster risk reduction within their respective communities. This paper presents a qualitative study with young people from refugee backgrounds and their experiences of the 2010–2011 Canterbury earthquakes in New Zealand. The interviews and focus group discussions with these participants highlighted their capacities as cultural brokers…
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Some immigrants and refugees might be more vulnerable than other groups to pandemic influenza because of preexisting health and social disparities, migration history, and living conditions in the United States. Vulnerable populations and their service providers need information to overcome limited resources, inaccessible health services, limited English proficiency and foreign language barriers, cross-cultural misunderstanding, and…
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This report offers a framework for how local governments can incorporate LEP residents and immigrants into the emergency planning process, increase their preparedness, and develop capacity in key public agencies to communicate with and serve these residents.
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Scholarship on disaster response and recovery has focused on local communities as crucial in developing and implementing timely, effective, and sustainable supports. Drawing from interviews with refugee leaders conducted during the spring and summer of 2020 at the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic, this study examines crisis response activities of refugee-led grassroots groups, specifically within…