I thought my recent piece in Al Jazeera may be of interest to this list.

Adam.

The hidden injuries of Iraqi refugees Psychological health and well-being 
issues plague one of the largest refugee populations in the world.

http://english.aljazeera.net/indepth/opinion/2011/06/201161145151506146.html

Little attention has been given in the post-conflict reconstruction of Iraq 
to the health and well-being of refugees and their children. Indeed, with 
the advent of the Arab Spring, the situation of displaced Iraqi refugees 
has left media, public and national policy agendas altogether. But almost a 
decade after US and British troops first touched down on Iraqi soil, 
families continue to lack basic resources. Children are living in a very 
fragile and tense social environment - which in countries such as Syria, 
Jordan and Lebanon is getting worse by the day, given the current social 
uprisings.

The devastating social effects in terms of increased civilian mortality of 
the invasion and reconstruction of Iraq has been demonstrated by research 
such as that produced by the Iraq Family Health Survey and the Johns 
Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health studies published in the Lancet. 
However, scant research or policy attention has been given to the 
suffering, death and psychological impacts caused by displacement and the 
poverty experienced by one of the largest refugee populations in modern 
history.

It is estimated that some 4.5 million refugees have been uprooted from 
their homes since the Iraq conflict began in 2003 and escalated in 2006, 
almost half of whom sought asylum in countries such as Syria, Jordan, 
Lebanon, Egypt and Turkey. In Syria, the government estimates that there 
are between one and 1.2 million Iraqis, approximately half of whom are 
children and adolescents. In many cases, they are neither able to go back, 
nor forward with their lives, as experiences of torture, kidnapping, severe 
violence, and grief continue to fill their lives.

Lack of policy and public focus

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