Health-related Resources

Several recently produced and/or newly updated health-related manuals include:

Clinical Guidelines: Diagnosis and Treatment Manual, 7th ed. (Médecins Sans Frontières, updated Sept. 2007) [access to English, French and Spanish versions]

Find the Help You Need: A Guide to Services for Disabled Refugees and Asylum Seekers (National Information Forum, 2007) [text]

Reproductive Health in Refugee Situations: An Inter-Agency Field Manual (Inter-Agency Working Group for Reproductive Health in Crises, Aug. 2007) [text]
- List of corrections to the Inter-agency Field Manual.

Resource Guide for Serving Refugees with Disabilities (U.S. Committee for Refugees, July 2007) [text]

WHO Ethical and safety recommendations for researching, documenting and monitoring sexual violence in emergencies (Aug. 2007) [text]

In addition, the most recent issue of the Coping with Crisis newsletter includes a brief literature review focusing on "Children and Trauma in Areas of Disaster," pp. 16-17.

Posted in Publications.