Overview

Relief workers face rapidly changing and complex environments, new disease patterns, enormous humanitarian needs and relatively limited resources. The authors of this book use their experience in the area to produce an operational manual of the issues involved in refugee health programmes. This book is aimed at professionals involved in public health assistance to refugees and displaced persons. It deals with a variety of specific refugee health issues at decisional level, and discusses the priorities of intervention during the different phases of a refugee crisis, from emergency to repatriation.

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Author:   Medecins Sans Frontieres
Publisher:   Macmillan Education
Imprint:   Macmillan Education
Dimensions:   Width: 14.90cm , Height: 2.20cm , Length: 21.00cm
Weight:   0.500kg
ISBN:  

9780333722107

ISBN 10:   0333722108
Pages:   384
Publication Date:   03 September 1997
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print  
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Table of Contents

Part 1 Refugee and displaced populations: political aspects; socio-cultural aspects. Part 2 The emergency phase - the top ten priorities: introduction; initial assessment; measles immunization; water and sanitation; food and nutrition - nutrient deficiences; shelter and site planning; health care in the emergency phase; control of communicable diseases and epidemics - (a) control of diarrhoeal diseases, (b) measles control, (c) control of acute respiratory infections, (d) malaria control; public health surveillance; human resources and training; coordination - camp management. Part 3 The post-emergency phase: introduction; health care in the post-emergency phase and some specific issues - curative health care, reproductive health care in the post-emergency phase, child health care in the post-emergency phase, HIV, AIDS and STD, tuberculosis programme; psycho-social and mental health. Appendices: initial assessment form; needs in vaccine and equipment in mass immunization campaigns; minimal nicroinutrient requirements; communicable diseases of potential importance in refugee settings - meningitis, hepatitis, haemorrhagic fevers, Japanese encephalitis, typhus fever, relapsing fever, typhoid fever, influenza, leishmaniasis, plague, trypanosomiasis, schistosomiasis, poliomyelitis, whooping cough, tetanus, scabies, conjunctivitis, guinea worm.

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