Screening of international immigrants, refugees, and adoptees

Primary Care - Clinics in Office Practice

Volumn 29, Issue 4, 2002, Pages 879-905

  Stauffer, William M ^a,b,c   Kamat, Deepak ^d   Walker, Patricia F ^a  

^a Center for International Health and International Travel Clinic   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^d WEST VIRGINIA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALBENDAZOLE; ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; ANTIPARASITIC AGENT; BACTERIAL VACCINE; BCG VACCINE; BITHIONOL; CHICKENPOX VACCINE; DIIODOHYDROXYQUIN; DILOXANIDE FUROATE; DIPHTHERIA PERTUSSIS TETANUS VACCINE; HAEMOPHILUS INFLUENZAE TYPE B VACCINE; HEPATITIS B VACCINE; IVERMECTIN; LEAD; MEASLES MUMPS RUBELLA VACCINE; MEBENDAZOLE; MEPACRINE; METRONIDAZOLE; NICLOSAMIDE; ORAL POLIOMYELITIS VACCINE; OXAMNIQUINE; PAROMOMYCIN; POLIOMYELITIS VACCINE; PRAZIQUANTEL; TETRACYCLINE; TIABENDAZOLE; TINIDAZOLE; TUBERCULOSTATIC AGENT; UNINDEXED DRUG; VIRUS VACCINE;

ADOPTION; BACTERIAL INFECTION; BREAST CANCER; CANCER; CANCER INCIDENCE; CANCER SCREENING; CHICKENPOX; DIGESTIVE SYSTEM CANCER; DIPHTHERIA; HEALTH CARE ACCESS; HEPATITIS B; HEPATITIS C; HUMAN; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS INFECTION; IMMIGRANT; IMMUNIZATION; INFECTION; INFECTION CONTROL; INTESTINE PARASITE; LABORATORY TEST; LEAD POISONING; LONG TERM CARE; LUNG CANCER; MALARIA; MALNUTRITION; MEASLES; MEDICAL ASSESSMENT; MUMPS; PARASITOSIS; PATIENT CARE; PERTUSSIS; POLIOMYELITIS; PRACTICE GUIDELINE; PRIMARY MEDICAL CARE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REFUGEE; REVIEW; RUBELLA; SCREENING TEST; SEXUALLY TRANSMITTED DISEASE; TETANUS; TREATMENT INDICATION; TUBERCULOSIS; UTERINE CERVIX CANCER; VACCINATION; VIRUS INFECTION; WORM INFECTION;

ADOPTION; COMMUNICABLE DISEASE CONTROL; EMIGRATION AND IMMIGRATION; HEPATITIS B; HUMANS; IMMUNIZATION; MASS SCREENING; PRIMARY HEALTH CARE; REFUGEES; TUBERCULOSIS, PULMONARY; UNITED STATES; WORLD HEALTH;

EID: 0036953036     PISSN: 00954543     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0095-4543(02)00035-0     Document Type: Review

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