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    Understanding the health needs of internally displaced persons: A scoping review
    (Elsevier, 2021-10-29) Cantor, David James; Swartz, Jina; Bayard, Roberts; Abbara, Aula; Ager, Alastair; Bhutta, Zulfiqar A.; Blanchet, Karl; Bunte, Derebe Madoro; Chukwuorji, JohnBosco Chika; Daoud, Nihaya; Ekezie, Winifred; Jimenez-Damary, Cecilia; Jobanputra, Kiran; Makhashvili, Nino; Rayes, Diana; Restrepo-Espinosa, Maria Helena; Rodriguez-Morales, Alfonso J.; Bukola, Salami; Smith, James
    We seek to strengthen understanding of the health needs of internally displaced persons (IDPs) in contexts of conflict or violence. Based upon a scoping review, our paper identified limited evidence on IDPs health, but nevertheless indicates that IDPs tend to experience worse health outcomes than other conflict-affected populations across a range of health issues; and this is due to the particularly vulnerable situation of IDPs relative to these other populations, including reduced access to health services. Further research is required to better understand these needs and the interventions that can most effectively address these needs.
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    Understanding Integration: A Conceptual Framework
    (2008-06) Ager, Alastair; Strang, Alison
    Integration has become both a key policy objective related to the resettlement of refugees and other migrants, and a matter of significant public discussion. Coherent policy development and productive public debate are, however, both threatened by the fact that the concept of integration is used with widely differing meanings. Based on review of attempted definitions of the term, related literature and primary fieldwork in settings of refugee settlement in the UK, the paper identifies elements central to perceptions of what constitutes 'successful' integration. Key domains of integration are proposed related to four overall themes: achievement and access across the sectors of employment, housing, education and health; assumptions and practice regarding citizenship and rights; processes of social connection within and between groups within the community; and structural barriers to such connection related to language, culture and the local environment. A framework linking these domains is presented as a tool to foster debate and definition regarding normative conceptions of integration in resettlement settings. The Author [2008]. Published by Oxford University Press. All rights reserved.