The Health of Refugees: Public Health Perspectives from Crisis to Settlement

ISBN-13: 9780198814733 / Angielski / Miękka / 2019 / 320 str.

Pascale Allotey; Daniel Reidpath

Recenzje

This is a highly insightful book providing a clear account of the complexities of refugee's experiences regarding health perspectives and other key challenges. It provides an ideal reference source for policymakers, researchers, academics and those working within the field supporting refugees.

O autorze

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.