Synopses & Reviews
This book is designed to be a training guide for Western physicians and nurses going to work in developing countries, especially those preparing to care for refugees. It will serve as a practical handbook for those working in refugee clinics and hospitals, and a summary of critical issues for those who make decisions concerning refugee care. The contributors combine a broad, accurate information base with a clear focus on the practical challenges of refugee care, emphasizing the three main causes of morbidity and mortality in refugee camps: diarrheal disease, infectious disease, and malnutrition. The book will be of enormous value to all those providing health care under difficult conditions with limited resources.
Table of Contents
PART I: Basic Considerations
1. Basic Considerations in Refugee Medicine
2. Epidemiology and Health Planning
3. Environmental Health and Sanitation
4. Training Refugees to be Health Workers
5. Immunizations for Health Workers
6. Immunizations for Refugees
7. Family Planning
8. Special Challenges in Nursing Care for Refugees
9. Setting the Level of Health Care in a Refugee Camp, and Coordinating the Services of International Agencies
10. Economic and Political Considerations
11. Essentials of Rapid Cultural Adaptation for Health Workers
PART II: Specialty Considerations in Patient Care
12. Tropical Pediatrics
13. Prevention of Malnutrition, and Feeding of Large Populations
14. Detection and Treatment of Severe Malnutrition in Individual Patients
15. Fluid and Electrolyte Therapy
16. Surgical Approaches in Refugee Health Care
17. Gynecology, Maternal Health, and Essential Obstetrics
18. Ophthalmologic Diseases Among Refugees
19. Dental Care
20. Psychiatric Care for Refugees
21. Rehabilitation Medicine in Refugee Camps
PART III: Diagnosis and Management of Infectious Dieases
22. Approach to Infectious Diseases in Refugee Camps
23. Antibiotic Drug Choice and Usage
24. Systemic Febrile Illnesses
25. Malaria
26. Dengue Fever and Rickettsial Diseases
27. Measles
28. Skin and Soft Tissue Infections
29. Leprosy
30. Meningitis and Polio
31. Tetanus
32. Respiratory Tract and Ear Infections
33. Tuberculosis
34. Intestinal Illness
35. Common Intestinal Parasites
36. Urinary Tract Infections
37. Sexually Transmitted Diseases
PART IV: Appendices