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

Summary points The complex medical needs of refugees are often unmet owing to inadequate training of healthcare providers Medical problems include infectious diseases, psychiatric disorders, and complications from ritual female genital surgery Symptoms of infectious diseases and history of exposure...

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Biological and medical sciences
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Clinical Review
Communicable Disease Control - organization & administration
Developing Countries
Disease control
Emigration and Immigration
Family medical history
Female
Female circumcision
Female genitalia
Health care
Health Services - standards
Health Services - supply & distribution
Hepatitis
Herbal medicine
HIV
Human immunodeficiency virus
Humans
Immigration
Infections
Infections - therapy
Infectious diseases
Interpreters
Mass Screening - organization & administration
Medical History Taking
Medical sciences
Mental depression
Mental disorders
Mental Disorders - diagnosis
Mental Disorders - therapy
Mental health
Miscellaneous
Mortality
Needs Assessment
Pain
Parasites
Physical Examination
Physicians
Post traumatic stress disorder
Public health. Hygiene
Public health. Hygiene-occupational medicine
Questionnaires
Refugee camps
Refugees
Sexual assault
Sexually transmitted diseases
Somatoform Disorders - therapy
STD
Surgery
Surgical outcomes
Surgical specialties
Symptoms
Torture
Trauma
Tuberculosis
Urogenital system
Womens health
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