Promoting refugee health:
A guide for doctors and other health care providers
caring for people of a refugee background (292pp, 2nd edition)
A comprehensive guide to working with clients from refugee backgrounds.
It covers:
- Cross-cultural communication
- Trauma & torture experiences
- Specific health concerns of adults, children & adolescents
- Approaches to refugee health assessment including the new MBS item
- Consultation & management
- Strategies to support service access
- Health entitlements & settlement support
- Web links for country profiles, refugee health websites
- Service directories for each state & territory
Caring for refugee patients in general practice:
A desk –top guide (21pp, 3rd edition)
A concise desk-top guide that provides critical summary information to address specific health concerns for the provision of quality care to patients of refugee backgrounds. A separate edition with specific referral and further information is available for each state and territory.
Limited hardcopy editions and CD roms of both resources are also available. Contact your state/territory agency member of the Forum for Australian Services for Survivors of Torture and Trauma (FASSTT) www.fasstt.org.au/members/index.php
How
to download?
Updates/Feedback
Please contact Foundation House if referral or other information
in these guides needs to be changed, corrected or updated at
crowel@foundationhouse.org.au.
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