Health Resources

The health of and provision of health services to refugees and migrants are often addressed in the research literature. Here is a sampling of what has come across my screen recently:

Conference report:

Health of Migrants - The Way Forward: Report of a global consultation Madrid, Spain, 3–5 March 2010 (WHO, 2010) [text]
- This report "provides a synthesis of the key discussion points of the Consultation, its outcomes and the background materials prepared for the event."

Course:

Refugee Health Care (JHSPH Open Courseware) [access]
- Offers lecture materials, readings and other resources.

Guidelines and principles:

Canadian Guidelines for Immigrant Health (collection of articles in CMAJ: The Canadian Medical Association Journal), including:

• Development of guidelines for recently arrived immigrants and refugees to Canada: Delphi consensus on selecting preventable and treatable conditions [text];
• Evaluation of evidence-based literature and formation of recommendations for the Clinical Preventive Guidelines for Immigrants and Refugees in Canada [text]; and
• Summary of clinical preventive care recommendations for newly arriving immigrants and refugees to Canada [text]

UNHCR's Principles and Guidance for Referral Health Care for Refugees and Other Persons of Concern (UNHCR, Dec. 2009) [text]

Journal article:

"Limitations on universality: the 'right to health' and the necessity of legal nationality," BMC International Health and Human Rights 10:11 (June 2010) [open access text]

Monograph:

Realizing the Right to Health, Swiss Human Rights Book, vol. 3 (Ruffer & Rub, 2009) [text]
- Includes chapters on the right to health in armed conflict and in emergencies.

Other:

For bibliographies, literature reviews and other related reference materials, visit the "health" and "mental health" pages in my forced migration research guide.

For other health-related resources referenced on this blog, browse the following subject terms:

• "health" label
• "mental health" label
• "health services" label

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