Data · dataset · 2026
Physical and psychological health issues of resettled refugees in the United States
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There are currently no systematic and reliable means of evaluating the incidence and prevalence of disease in United States refugee populations.
Description
Barriers include inadequate surveillance mechanisms and an inability to distinguish refugees from the foreign-born or ethnic groupings. A data set, created for administrative purposes, of a cohort of 2,361 adult refugees who sought health care services in a large US county health system from October, 1995 to February, 1998 was studied.
A subset of 187 refugee medical records was reviewed to assess whether refugee status was documented and considered in diagnosis and treatment plans. Questions explored included: the demographics of this refugee population; patterns of health care utilization; health insurance coverage; and health problems presented. Most of the population came from Vietnam, the former Soviet Union, and Bosnia-Herzegovina.
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Refugees were infrequent users of the country emergency services, saw few specialists, missed few appointments, and most were publicly insured. A high prevalence of ill-defined symptoms was found, that appeared to be higher in refugees from the former Soviet Union. Across the sample, diagnoses of mental disorder were rare.
The majority of refugee women received no gynaecological care although nationality differences existed. The implications of refugee status were not considered in the diagnosis and care received by refugees. The findings suggest that, even when refugees seek medical care in a highly regarded county health system, their unique problems are rarely addressed.
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Where it is published
- DOI doi.org/10.25446/oxford.33360459.v1 ↗
DOI / persistent id · from zivahub uct ac za
Catalogue records · 1
- OAI-PMH record api.figshare.com/v2/oai?verb=GetRecord&metadataPrefix=oai_dc&identifier=oai%3Af… ↗
metadata API · from zivahub uct ac za
Topics
- From keywords
- Earth & Environmental Science · Earth & Environmental Science · Earth & Environmental Science · Health and community services · Health and community services · Health and community services · Medicine & Health · Medicine & Health · Medicine & Health · Migration, asylum and refugee law · Migration, asylum and refugee law · Migration, asylum and refugee law · Social Science · Social Science · Social Science
- Inferred from text
- Disease 75%
Provenance · 3 source records, 20 field assertions
| Source | Key | Last seen | Raw |
|---|---|---|---|
| ZivaHub | oai:figshare.com:article/33360459 | 6 d ago | JSON v1 |
| Deakin Research Online | oai:figshare.com:article/33360459 | 6 d ago | JSON v1 |
| DMU Figshare | oai:figshare.com:article/33360459 | 6 d ago | JSON v1 |
| Field | Assertion | Extractor | Evidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| concepts[disease].local:disease:disease | enrichment · zivahub uct ac za | keyword-concept-rules@1.0.0 | title+description (75%) |
| concepts[field].anzsrc:field:420305 | mapping · zivahub uct ac za | vocabulary-mapper@1.0.0 | keywords['HEALTH SERVICES'] |
| concepts[field].anzsrc:field:420305 | mapping · figshare dmu ac uk | vocabulary-mapper@1.0.0 | keywords['HEALTH SERVICES'] |
| concepts[field].anzsrc:field:420305 | mapping · dro deakin edu au | vocabulary-mapper@1.0.0 | keywords['HEALTH SERVICES'] |
| concepts[field].anzsrc:field:480704 | mapping · dro deakin edu au | vocabulary-mapper@1.0.0 | keywords['Migration, asylum and refugee law'] |
| concepts[field].anzsrc:field:480704 | mapping · figshare dmu ac uk | vocabulary-mapper@1.0.0 | keywords['Migration, asylum and refugee law'] |
| concepts[field].anzsrc:field:480704 | mapping · zivahub uct ac za | vocabulary-mapper@1.0.0 | keywords['Migration, asylum and refugee law'] |
| concepts[field].local:field:earth-environmental | mapping · figshare dmu ac uk | connector:figshare_dmu_ac_uk@1.0.0 | |
| concepts[field].local:field:earth-environmental | mapping · zivahub uct ac za | connector:zivahub_uct_ac_za@1.0.0 | |
| concepts[field].local:field:earth-environmental | mapping · dro deakin edu au | connector:dro_deakin_edu_au@1.0.0 | |
| concepts[field].local:field:medicine-health | mapping · figshare dmu ac uk | connector:figshare_dmu_ac_uk@1.0.0 | |
| concepts[field].local:field:medicine-health | mapping · dro deakin edu au | connector:dro_deakin_edu_au@1.0.0 | |
| concepts[field].local:field:medicine-health | mapping · zivahub uct ac za | connector:zivahub_uct_ac_za@1.0.0 | |
| concepts[field].local:field:social-science | mapping · dro deakin edu au | connector:dro_deakin_edu_au@1.0.0 | |
| concepts[field].local:field:social-science | mapping · zivahub uct ac za | connector:zivahub_uct_ac_za@1.0.0 | |
| concepts[field].local:field:social-science | mapping · figshare dmu ac uk | connector:figshare_dmu_ac_uk@1.0.0 | |
| description | source · zivahub uct ac za | connector:zivahub_uct_ac_za@1.0.0 | /metadata/dc/description |
| license_text | source · zivahub uct ac za | connector:zivahub_uct_ac_za@1.0.0 | |
| publication_date | source · zivahub uct ac za | connector:zivahub_uct_ac_za@1.0.0 | |
| title | source · zivahub uct ac za | connector:zivahub_uct_ac_za@1.0.0 | /metadata/dc/title |