Children on the Move: The Health of Refugee, Immigrant and Displaced Children

• Main Author: Oberg, Charles (auth)
• Format: Electronic Book Chapter
• Language: English
• Published: MDPI - Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute 2020
• Subjects: supplemental nutrition assistance program; screening; medico-legal ethics; refugees; children on the move; infectious diseases; Budapest Declaration; age assessments; limited English proficiency (LEP); child rights; children's rights; cultural norms; youth; internally displaced persons (IDP); migrant; children; medical interpreters; food insecurity; burns; climate change; resettlement; trauma; linguistic minorities; oral health; culturally responsive care; disease burden; refugee crisis; Multidrugresistant gram negative bacteria; anemia; Canada; forensic evaluations; immigrant and refugee children; Methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus; foreign bodies; child morbidity; gender; child development; exclusion; acculturation; Article 22 of the CRC; immunizations; Mayan; immigrant; health care; child-protection; immigrants; immigration policy; Quebec; war; trauma informed care; child health; asylum-seeking children; educational intervention; Convention on the Rights of the Child; refugee; immigrant families; migration
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This Special Issue of Children will focus on the migration arc of children from their country of origin through the experience in refugee camps and, finally, to their arrival in in a new home. It will examine the impact experiencing migration as refugees, immigrants or those internally displaced due...