A review of the health problems of the internally displaced persons in Africa

ET Owoaje, OC Uchendu, TO Ajayi… - Nigerian postgraduate …, 2016 - journals.lww.com
Globally, over 40 million people were displaced as a result of wars and violence due to
religious and ethnic conflicts in 2015 while 19.2 million were displaced by natural disasters …

Managing COVID-19 in low-and middle-income countries

J Hopman, B Allegranzi, S Mehtar - Jama, 2020 - jamanetwork.com
(COVID-19) in China has illustrated that it is possible to contain COVID-19 if governments
focus on tried and tested public health outbreak responses. 1, 2 Isolation, quarantine, social …

Impact of armed conflict on cardiovascular disease risk: a systematic review

M Jawad, EP Vamos, M Najim, B Roberts, C Millett - Heart, 2019 - heart.bmj.com
Objectives Prolonged armed conflict may constrain efforts to address non-communicable
disease in some settings. We assessed the impact of armed conflict on cardiovascular …

Physical fitness and mental health impact of a sport-for-development intervention in a post-conflict setting: randomised controlled trial nested within an observational …

J Richards, C Foster, N Townsend, A Bauman - BMC Public Health, 2014 - Springer
Background Physical inactivity contributes to poor fitness and mental health disorders. This
is of concern in post-conflict low-income settings where non-communicable diseases are …

Conflict, forced displacement and health in Sri Lanka: a review of the research landscape

C Siriwardhana, K Wickramage - Conflict and health, 2014 - Springer
Sri Lanka has recently emerged from nearly three decades of protracted conflict, which
came to an end five years ago in 2009. A number of researchers have explored the …

The effectiveness of interventions for non-communicable diseases in humanitarian crises: a systematic review

A Ruby, A Knight, P Perel, K Blanchet, B Roberts - PloS one, 2015 - journals.plos.org
Background Non-communicable diseases (NCDs) are of increasing concern in low-and
middle-income countries (LMICs) affected humanitarian crises. Humanitarian agencies and …

Burden of non-communicable diseases among Syrian refugees: a sco** review

F Naja, H Shatila, M El Koussa, L Meho, L Ghandour… - BMC public health, 2019 - Springer
Background The scarcity of evidence-based research on non-communicable diseases
(NCDs) among Syrian refugees has hampered efforts to address the high burden of these …

Major depressive disorder seven years after the conflict in northern Uganda: burden, risk factors and impact on outcomes (The Wayo-Nero Study)

J Mugisha, H Muyinda, S Malamba, E Kinyanda - BMC psychiatry, 2015 - Springer
Background Major depressive disorder (MDD) is a major public health burden in conflict
areas. However, it is not known for how long and by how much the observed high rates of …

[HTML][HTML] Resilience actions of Internally Displaced Persons (IDPs) living in camp-like settings: A Northern Nigeria case study

W Ekezie - Journal of migration and health, 2022 - Elsevier
Background There are about 55 million Internally Displaced Persons (IDP), and some live in
camp settlements, often for protracted periods. However, there is limited evidence on camp …

Treating Syrian refugees with diabetes and hypertension in Shatila refugee camp, Lebanon: Médecins Sans Frontières model of care and treatment outcomes

M Kayali, K Moussally, C Lakis, MA Abrash, C Sawan… - Conflict and …, 2019 - Springer
Background Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) has been providing primary care for non-
communicable diseases (NCDs), which have been increasing in low to middle-income …