Talk:Refugee health

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Moving lead poisoning section

The lead poisoning section focuses on this health condition solely among refugees in the United States. Since it only pertains to the U.S., I will be moving this section to the Refugee health in the United States page. Ahong11 (talk) 23:21, 10 April 2017 (UTC)

Sure sounds good. Also new comments generally go at the bottom. Best Doc James (talk · contribs · email) 23:27, 10 April 2017 (UTC)

Further improvements

I'd like to improve the article by doing the following - 1. to remove the US-centric focus and provide a global overview of migrant health; 2. to repair existing citation issues and add more scholarly citations to the article; and 3. to improve article visibility. Ideally, these changes will allow the removal of the "multiple issues" template message. Khanzar (talk) 22:55, 4 March 2017 (UTC)

To deal more effectively with the 'global' issue, I have moved all U.S.-specific material to a new article, "Migrant health in the United States." Khanzar (talk) 18:33, 5 March 2017 (UTC)

This article is no longer an orphan. The banner has been removed. Khanzar (talk) 22:21, 24 March 2017 (UTC)

Citations

This article presents many sections which do not have citations to verify where the information and data is coming from (Overview, Immunization, Sexually Transmitted Infections, etc.) Cassidy Shapiro (talk) 09:17, 4 November 2016 (UTC)Cassidy Shapiro Several of the links for citations and references provided are broken or lead to ambiguous web pages where it is not clear how to find the source information (Citation 20, Reference 9, etc.) Cassidy Shapiro (talk) 09:17, 4 November 2016 (UTC)Cassidy Shapiro

Information

The information provided in this article is lacking statistical data that would support the information given and help to better inform readers of the status of migrant health today. Adding epidemiological data would greatly increase the legitimacy and validity of this article. Cassidy Shapiro (talk) 09:20, 4 November 2016 (UTC)Cassidy Shapiro

Globally

This article is very US centric and needs improvement. --Doc James (talk · contribs · email) (if I write on your page reply on mine) 08:50, 25 September 2014 (UTC)

Is the article now less US-centric? Should the "not global worldview" banner be removed? Khanzar (talk) 15:12, 24 March 2017 (UTC)

Destination country and legal status

This article had and still has some blurriness in regards to who it is talking about or referring to. As the title is refugee health it should really focus on refugees and not talk about migrants and immigrants. Obviously, a migrant worker doesn't come from a refugee camp and many immigrants may actually have received an excellent health service in his or her home country and immigrants - as the word is usually used - don't flee from anything and also usually have a very different legal status in the destination country than refugees and even more so than asylum seekers. Furthermore, this article seems to be assuming that refugees arrived in a western country - which is not true for most refugees. Most refugees live in neighbouring countries. Does this article thus mainly talk about refugees who were selected for refugee resettlement in a third country? If so this needs to be made clearer and refugee health in non-western countries should also be included. Thanks Michtrich (talk) 11:56, 10 June 2017 (UTC)

Do we need a separate article on migrant health? Only a small proportion of migrants are refugees and the health issues are not identical. Rathfelder (talk) 19:52, 15 April 2019 (UTC)

Cultural Competence

The section on cultural competence appears to have little to no corroborating sources to prove the need for this section. It might be worth including in a section titled "Interventions" or something along those lines so that is has some grounding and a particular lens surrounding it. I do think it is a very important concept but I think it needs to have a little more purpose in this article and relevance to specific scenarios within refugee health interventions. Ajs426 (talk) 23:00, 15 February 2018 (UTC)