Care Facilitation
• Colleagues at Jefferson Department of Family and Community Medicine recently published an article on Cervical Cancer Screening Outcomes in the Journal of Immigrant and Refugee Studies. Full text of the article:
Partnership and Training
• The Delaware Health Sciences Alliance will offer its annual Global Health Symposium on Friday, June 13th. Schedule and registration information:
Best Practices
• A recent article on mental health screening for refugees and the work of the Minnesota refugee mental health working group: http://www.minnpost.com/mental-health-addiction/2014/05/meeting-needs-traumatized-refugees-what-ask-what-not-ask
• Request for Actors: The Philadelphia Refugee Mental Health Collaborative and partners are currently preparing to film a short video for refugee care providers on mental health screening. Interested in becoming an actor? Contact Melissa Fogg at melissaf@lcfsinpa.org.
Advocacy
• Burma: A recent article on Rohingya refugees by UNHCR available here: http://www.unhcr.org/53677d659.html
• Syria: UNHCR believes that there will be 4 million Syrian refugees by the end of the year. Syria was once the 3rd largest host of refugees is now the largest producer of them. Syrians now also make up the largest numbers of asylum applicants in the ‘industrialized world’ including the US. Of these numbers, 75% are women and children. 50% are classified as ‘very young children’. This is not only the largest refugee crisis but one that is impacting very young children. UNHCR is providing services for this population based on 25% of their total funding request. See the video about the impact of the crisis on young children here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zakg37VFaqw and read about the crisis here: http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/worldviews/wp/2014/04/22/syrias-lost-generation-might-be-largest-displacement-since-wwii/?tid=pm_world_pop
