Welcome to Refugee Health ~ Immigrant Health
Warning re medications, treatments, procedures; about the site
Revised & expanded material in this site appears in a book published by Cambridge University Press 11/2004. Available at the usual places.
Issues in refugee health
and resettlement: Background
on refugees, definitions | General
Health issues
| Infectious
Diseases (big site)
| Mental
Health - torture, PTSD, grief | Religious
Influences on health | Women
& health | Models
for care, planning, and funding | Links
to resources | Asian
Health Site
- where this all began | Relief Agencies &
Missions
| Asian languages site - (external &
excellent) | Sex Trafficking sites
Populations: Bosnian | Burmese | Cambodian/ Khmer | Chinese | Cuban | Ethiopian/Eritrean | Gypsy/Roma | Haitian | Indian (Asian) | Iraqi | Korean | Kosovar | Kurdish | Laotian/Lao | Liberian | Mexican/Hispanic | Nigerian | Somali | Sudanese | Vietnamese
Email Charles_Kemp@baylor.edu (we really would like to hear from you). Sponsors: Baylor School of Nursing, Texas Department of Health, US Office of Refugee Resettlement, Vietnamese MAA - Dallas
Dedicated to those who seek refuge and those who give refuge: "I love you. I will never forget you. I will tell my daughter about you when she grows up and can understand." Written on the coffin of a woman killed in San Salvador, 1979.
Last update 8/2006. All pages this site copyright 1999-2006 by Charles Kemp & Lance Rasbridge
