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Common Mental Disorders among adult members of ‘left-behind’ international migrant worker families in Sri Lanka

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  • Expatriate Forum, Policy Impact

Jayasinghe, C. (2017). Common mental disorders among adult members of ‘left-behind’ international migrant worker families in Sri Lanka. World Health Organization: World Mental Health Day, 2017. 

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Addressing the Health Needs of Families Left Behind by Sri Lankan Migrants

  • Expatriate Forum, IRD, Policy Impact
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Impact of Spouse Migration on Left Behind Families

  • Migration Research
  • Completed
The Ministry of Health and the International Organization of Migration took the initiative to develop an evidence based migration health policy for Sri Lanka. The

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Impact of Economic Labour Migration: A Qualitative Exploration of Left-Behind Family Member Perspectives in Sri Lanka

  • Migration Research
  • Journal Article
Sri Lanka is a major labour sending country in Asia, with a high proportion of female labour migrants employed as domestic housemaids in the Middle

Risk of mental health and nutritional problems for left-behind children of international labor migrants

  • Migration Research
  • Journal Article
https://www.ird.lk/wp-content/uploads/2015/03/Risk-of-mental-health-and-nutritional-problems.pdf

Common mental disorders among adult members of ‘left-behind’ international migrant worker families in Sri Lanka

  • Migration Research
  • Journal Article
A total of 410 IMW families were recruited (response rate: 95.1%). Both spouse and a non-spouse caregiver were recruited for 55 families with a total