Healthier in Juárez
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Jun 28, 2021
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Abstract
During my training in the Denver Health Emergency Medicine Residency, I noticed that my colleagues and I were seeing an increasing number of detained immigrants seeking emergency care for vague complaints such as inability to sleep, headaches or malaise. Taken as a whole, we felt many of these patients were presenting with somatic symptoms suggestive of Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder and undiagnosed depression. In October 2019, I traveled to the border towns of El Paso and Juárez to find out more about this disturbing trend.
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border, border crisis, immigration, immigrant, migrant, detainee, detainment center, asylum, healthcare, access to healthcare, Juarez, Mexico, United States
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Malik, E., Calvello-Hynes , E., & Whitfield, J. (2021). Healthier in Juárez. The Columbia University Journal of Global Health, 11(1). Retrieved from https://journals.library.columbia.edu/index.php/jgh/article/view/7458