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Building a Community of Solution with Resettled Refugees
Griswold KS1*, Kim I2 and Scates JM31Jacobs School of Medicine and Biomedical Sciences, State University of New York at Buffalo, USA
2Assistant Professor, School of Social Work, State University of New York at Buffalo, USA
3School of Public Health and Health Professions, State University of New York at Buffalo, USA
- *Corresponding Author:
- Kim S. Griswold
MD, MPH, Associate Professor of Family Medicine
Psychiatry and Public Health and the Health Professions
Jacobs School of Medicine and Biomedical Sciences, State University of New York at Buffalo, USA
Tel: 716-560-3129
Fax: 716-218-2393
E-mail: griswol@buffalo.edu
Received date: January 19, 2016; Accepted date: February 25, 2016; Published date: February 29, 2016
Citation: Griswold KS, Kim I, Scates JM (2016) Building a Community of Solution with Resettled Refugees. J Community Med Health 6:404. doi:10.4172/2161-0711.1000404
Copyright: © 2016 Griswold KS, et al. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.
Abstract
The crisis of migrants across the globe is of increasing concern, and communities in every nation are faced with providing competent, equitable and culturally appropriate services for resettling refugees. Communities seeking solutions often find that health centric disciplines are not enough to meet the challenges presented by these newly arriving populations. In this article, we present the “Communities of Solution” model proposed in the 1966 Folsom Report, Health is a Community Affair. The Folsom report recognized that healthy communities can be achieved with strong community partnerships, person-centered health care and a focus on public health. In retrospect, Folsom focused firmly on the determinants of health that today shape our thinking about health, health care, and mitigation of disparities. In this article, one community’s efforts demonstrate a multi-faceted approach that is revitalizing an area.
