Health care in refugee camps
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Integrating health care for mothers and children in refugee camps and at district level.
In poorly resourced countries, a failure to link primary (home based) care effectively to that available in the local government run general hospitals is common. Communication between home based care and hospital based care is rare. The extremely poor services available in many district hospitals deter families from taking their relatives there for treatment. The patients, supported by their fa...
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متن کاملHealth care of refugee women.
BACKGROUND Women refugees have endured major discrimination and poverty in their countries of origin or countries of displacement. This has had a major impact on their physical and psychological health. The experience of resettlement places a further burden on their health. OBJECTIVE This article aims to provide a simple approach to the health assessment and management of women refugees, taki...
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ژورنال
عنوان ژورنال: Transactions of the Royal Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene
سال: 1998
ISSN: 0035-9203
DOI: 10.1016/s0035-9203(98)90717-9