tailieunhanh - Báo cáo y học: "Displacement and disease: The Shan exodus and infectious disease implications for Thailand"

Tuyển tập các báo cáo nghiên cứu về y học được đăng trên tạp chí y học Critical Care giúp cho các bạn có thêm kiến thức về ngành y học đề tài: Displacement and disease: The Shan exodus and infectious disease implications for Thailand | Conflict and Health BioMed Central Open Access Case study Displacement and disease The Shan exodus and infectious disease implications for Thailand Voravit Suwanvanichkij Address Center for Public Health and Human Rights Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health Baltimore Maryland USA Email Voravit Suwanvanichkij- vsuwanva@ Published 14 March 2008 Received 7 September 2007 Conflict and Health 2008 2 4 doi l752-l505-2-4 Accepted I4 March 2008 This article is available from http content 2 l 4 2008 Suwanvanichkij licensee BioMed Central Ltd. This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License http licenses by which permits unrestricted use distribution and reproduction in any medium provided the original work is properly cited. Abstract Decades of neglect and abuses by the Burmese government have decimated the health of the peoples of Burma particularly along her eastern frontiers overwhelmingly populated by ethnic minorities such as the Shan. Vast areas of traditional Shan homelands have been systematically depopulated by the Burmese military regime as part of its counter-insurgency policy which also employs widespread abuses of civilians by Burmese soldiers including rape torture and extrajudicial executions. These abuses coupled with Burmese government economic mismanagement which has further entrenched already pervasive poverty in rural Burma have spawned a humanitarian catastrophe forcing hundreds of thousands of ethnic Shan villagers to flee their homes for Thailand. In Thailand they are denied refugee status and its legal protections living at constant risk for arrest and deportation. Classified as economic migrants many are forced to work in exploitative conditions including in the Thai sex industry and Shan migrants often lack access to basic health services in Thailand. Available health data on Shan migrants in Thailand already .