How Refugees and Asylum Seekers Can Access Child Healthcare
November 11, 2022
How Refugees and Asylum Seekers Can Access Child Healthcare When you travel abroad as a refugee, you need to access a quality healthcare facility to
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We provide human rights research and projects to help refugees in need of health care.
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Public health and human rights are complementary–and occasionally conflicting–approaches to promoting and protecting human dignity and well-being. Because of their training, health practitioners are well placed in society to promote human rights. Health care providers also have a duty to respect international standards of human rights and humanitarian law. We have explored these linkages through our work with refugee populations in the United States; in a needs assessment of the mental health programs in Albania; and in our studies of the role justice is playing in the aftermath of genocide and war in Rwanda and the former Yugoslavia. |
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- Vollen, L. (2000). All That Remains: Identifying the Victims of the Srebrenica Massacre. (1.5MB) Cambridge Quarterly of Healthcare Ethics 10:3, Summer, 2001, 336-340. Link to Carnegie Council on Health and Human Rights
- Weinstein, HM, Lipson, JG, Sarnoff, R, and Gladstone, EA. Rethinking Displacement: Bosnians Uprooted in Bosnia and California (1999). In JG Lipson and LA McSpadden (eds.). Negotiating Power and Place at the Margins. Selected papers on Refugees and Immigrants, Volume VII, American Anthropological Association: Arlington, VA, pp. 53-74.
- Weinstein, HM, Sarnoff, R, Gladstone, ES and Lipson, JG (2000). Physical and Psychological Health Issues of Resettled Refugees in the United States. Journal of Refugee Studies 13:3, 303-327.
- Weinstein, Harvey M., Okin, Robert M., Burnim, Ira & Schreier, Herbert, Evaluation of the Mental Health System of Albania, HRC Report, September, 2000
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