Fleeing the floods: the local health effects of internally displaced Malawians

Prudencio, Laura; Suárez, María J.; English, Benjamin; Young, Nolan

Fleeing the floods: the local health effects of internally displaced Malawians

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Prudencio, L, Suárez, M, English, B, Young, N. Fleeing the floods: the local health effects of internally displaced Malawians. 2022. handle: http://hdl.handle.net/10230/55222

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Natural disasters take lives, destroy homes, trigger epidemics, and affect individual health. Refugees fleeing to safety often are confined to camps and makeshift settlements until they can return home. As the climate crisis deepens, climate refugee flows will swell in frequency and intensity, escalating pre-existing economic tensions between local communities and refugees. A better understanding of the relationship between refugees and where they flee is needed. This paper finds that the presence of an Internally Displaced Persons (IDP) site can negatively affect the public health of local communities in Malawi. Sites with poorer hygiene conditions are associated with more drastic adverse health effects. Policymakers, humanitarian organizations, and relevant stakeholders should place greater emphasis on the quality of health and hygiene when responding to IDP flows triggered by natural disasters.

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