Medical encounters in Finnish reception centres: Asylum-seeker and clinician perspectives

Journal of Refugee Studies

Volumn 18, Issue 1, 2005, Pages 47-75

  Koehn, Peter H ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MONTANA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ASYLUM SEEKER; HEALTH CARE; REFUGEE;

EASTERN HEMISPHERE; EURASIA; EUROPE; FINLAND; NORTHERN EUROPE; SCANDINAVIA; WORLD;

SOMALIA;

EID: 26844524281     PISSN: 09516328     EISSN: 14716925     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/jrs/18.1.47     Document Type: Article

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