Humanitarian and primary healthcare needs of refugee women and children in Afghanistan

This Commentary describes the situation and healthcare needs of Afghans returning to their country of origin. With more than 600,000 Afghans returned from Pakistan and approximately 450,000 Afghans returned from Iran in 2016, the movement of people, which has been continuing in 2017, presents additi...

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Autores principales: Higgins-Steele, Ariel, Lai, David, Chikvaidze, Paata, Yousufi, Khaksar, Anwari, Zelaikha, Peeperkorn, Richard, Edmond, Karen
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2017
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5724347/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/29224569
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12916-017-0961-y
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author Higgins-Steele, Ariel
Lai, David
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Peeperkorn, Richard
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description This Commentary describes the situation and healthcare needs of Afghans returning to their country of origin. With more than 600,000 Afghans returned from Pakistan and approximately 450,000 Afghans returned from Iran in 2016, the movement of people, which has been continuing in 2017, presents additional burden on the weak health system and confounds new health vulnerabilities especially for women and children. Stewardship and response is required at all levels: the central Ministry of Public Health, Provincial Health Departments and community leaders all have important roles, while continued support from development partners and technical experts is needed to assist the health sector to address the emergency and primary healthcare needs of returnee and internally displaced women, children and families.
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spelling pubmed-57243472017-12-13 Humanitarian and primary healthcare needs of refugee women and children in Afghanistan Higgins-Steele, Ariel Lai, David Chikvaidze, Paata Yousufi, Khaksar Anwari, Zelaikha Peeperkorn, Richard Edmond, Karen BMC Med Commentary This Commentary describes the situation and healthcare needs of Afghans returning to their country of origin. With more than 600,000 Afghans returned from Pakistan and approximately 450,000 Afghans returned from Iran in 2016, the movement of people, which has been continuing in 2017, presents additional burden on the weak health system and confounds new health vulnerabilities especially for women and children. Stewardship and response is required at all levels: the central Ministry of Public Health, Provincial Health Departments and community leaders all have important roles, while continued support from development partners and technical experts is needed to assist the health sector to address the emergency and primary healthcare needs of returnee and internally displaced women, children and families. BioMed Central 2017-12-11 /pmc/articles/PMC5724347/ /pubmed/29224569 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12916-017-0961-y Text en © The Author(s). 2017 Open AccessThis article is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons license, and indicate if changes were made. The Creative Commons Public Domain Dedication waiver (http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/) applies to the data made available in this article, unless otherwise stated.
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