Refugee Health: An Approach to Emergency Situations

by Médecins Sans Frontières

Relief workers face rapidly changing and complex environments, new disease patterns, enormous humanitarian needs and relatively limited resources. The authors of this book use their experience in the area to produce an operational manual of the issues involved in refugee health programs. This book is aimed at professionals involved in public health assistance to refugees and displaced persons. It deals with a variety of specific refugee health issues at the decisional level, and discusses the priorities of intervention during the different phases of a refugee crisis, from emergency to repatriation.

384 pages, Paperback

First published September 1, 1997

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Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF), or Doctors Without Borders, is a secular humanitarian-aid non-governmental organization best known for its projects in war-torn regions and developing countries facing endemic diseases. Founded in 1971, its headquarters are in Geneva, Switzerland. The organization is known in most parts of the world by its French name or simply as MSF, but in Canada and the United States the name Doctors Without Borders is more commonly used.

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