Healthcare challenges from the developing world: Post-immigration refugee medicine

British Medical Journal

Volumn 328, Issue 7455, 2004, Pages 1548-1552

  Adams, Kristina M ^a,d   Gardiner, Lorin D ^b   Assefi, Nassim ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

^c Rural Expansion Afghanistan's C   (Afghanistan)

^d Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACUTE RESPIRATORY TRACT DISEASE; DEVELOPING COUNTRY; DIAGNOSTIC APPROACH ROUTE; DIAGNOSTIC TEST; EPIDEMIC; FEMALE CIRCUMCISION; GASTROINTESTINAL DISEASE; GENERAL PRACTITIONER; HEALTH CARE AVAILABILITY; HUMAN; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS INFECTION; INFECTION RATE; LEPROSY EPIDEMIOLOGY; MALARIA; MANDATORY PROGRAM; MEASLES; MEDICAL EXAMINATION; MEDICAL LITERATURE; MENTAL HEALTH; PATIENT CARE; POSTTRAUMATIC STRESS DISORDER; PRIMARY MEDICAL CARE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSYCHOSOMATIC DISORDER; REFUGEE; REVIEW; SCREENING TEST; TUBERCULOSIS;

EID: 3042739625     PISSN: 09598146     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/bmj.328.7455.1548     Document Type: Review

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