Marline Spring

TL;DR: The need to recognize torture in African refugees, especially women, identify indicators of posttraumatic stress in torture survivors, and provide additional resources to care for tortured refugees is highlighted.

TL;DR: A need to develop age-appropriate strategies to promote the health of refugee youth to facilitate their successful adaptation to adult life in the United States is suggested.

TL;DR: A need for nurses, and especially public health nurses who work with refugee and immigrant populations in the community, to develop a more comprehensive understanding of the range of refugee women's experiences and the continuum of needs post-migration, particularly among older women with large family responsibilities is suggested.

TL;DR: Ethnographic trust and rapport-building activities among investigators, field staff, and immigrant communities made it possible to obtain the sample and gather sensitive data, and maintaining a culture of trust was crucial in recovering from damaging environmental events that threatened data collection.

TL;DR: Using western biomedical criteria of efficacy, 92% of the medicinal plants being cultivated were found to be potentially efficacious and the frequent use of these plants in diet suggests that they have served to mediate against illness and disease states in the cultural and natural environment in which the practices evolved.