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  Status of gender, vulnerabilities and adaptation to climate change in the Hindu Kush Himalaya : impacts and implications for livelihoods, and sustainable mountain development

  International Centre for Integrated Mountain Development, (ICIMOD), Nepal, 2017

  The overarching recognition in all the literature is that climate change will have huge and largely detrimental impacts on vulnerable communities, and that gender will be a defining feature in shaping individuals’ experiences of adverse circumstances.
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  Helpdesk Report: Health and nutrition for displaced populations

  Health and Education Advice and Resource Team, 2014

  This helpdesk report focuses on evidence of the most appropriate ways to support health and nutrition outcomes for management of protracted population displacement. It highlights information on psycho-social social impacts of protracted displacement (including gender). Findings on health and nutrition management of protracted population displacement include:
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  An exploration and critique of the use of mental health information within refugee status determination proceedings in the United Kingdom

  Refugee Studies Centre, Oxford, 2014

  This study seeks to understand the composition, use and cultural orientation of mental health evidence within the UK’s refugee status determination (RSD) process.
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  Overview of migration, poverty and health dynamics in Nairobi City's slum settlements

  African Population and Health Research Center, Nairobi, Kenya, 2011

  The Urbanization, Poverty, and Health Dynamics research program was designed to generate and provide the evidence base that would help governments, development partners, and other stakeholders understand how the urban slum context affects health outcomes in order to stimulate policy and action for uplifting the wellbeing of slum residents.
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  The health dimension of Asian migration to Europe - abridged report

  Asia Foundation, 2012

  What are the public health implications of Asian migration to Europe?  This reort looks at a study undertaken in Madrid, Spain and Milan, Italy among Filipinos and Chinese, the two largest Asian migrant groups in those two cities.
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  Caring for trafficked persons: guidance for health providers

  International Organization for Migration, 2009

  For many trafficked persons, the physical and psychological aftermath of a trafficking experience can be severe and enduring. Health providers may come into contact with victims of trafficking at different stages of the trafficking process and at different stages of their recovery. For health practitioners, diagnosing and treating trafficked persons can be exceptionally challenging.
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  Urban health in Johannesburg: The importance of place in understanding intra-urban inequalities in a context of migration and HIV

  Health & Place, 2010

  Developing country urban contexts present multiple challenges to those responsible for ensuring the good health of urban populations. These include urban growth, migration, informal settlements, intra-urban inequalities and – in some cases – high HIV prevalence.
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  Hidden cities: unmasking and overcoming health inequities in urban settings

  World Health Organization, 2010

  This report exposes the extent to which urban poor suffer disproportionately from a wide range of diseases (malnutrition, diabetes, tuberculosis, human immunodeficiency virus infection) and health problems (homicide), which can be traced back to inequalities in their social and living conditions.
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  Whither gender in urban health?

  Health & Place, 2008

  The past decade has witnessed the rapid expansion of the field of urban health, including the establishment of an international society of urban health and annual conference, the publication of several books and the growing popularity of a peer-reviewed journal on urban health.
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  Our cities, our health, our future: acting on social determinants for health equity in urban settings. Report to the WHO Commission on Social Determinants of Health from the Knowledge Network on Urban Settings

  World Health Organization, 2008

  This report summarises the social determinants of health in urban settings and provides guidance and examples of interventions that have been effective in achieving health equity. It is divided into 7 sections. Section 1 provides an introduction, and Section 2 discusses urbanisation and the urban setting as health determinants.

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