Health Assessment & Ongoing Care
The following is a select list of references on refugee health assessment and on-going care. If you know of other valuable references to add, please contact us.
Allotey P (ed) (2003) The Health of Refugees:Public Health Perspectives from Crisis to Settlement. Oxford University Press, Melbourne.
Benson J (2004) Helping Refugees integrate into our community: reflections from General Practice. Australian Family Physician. 33 (1/2):23-24.
Bhatia, R, & Wallace, P. (2007). Experiences of refugees and asylum seekers in general practice: a qualitative study. BMC Fam Pract, 8, 48.
Cooke, R, Murray, S, Carapetis, J, Rice, J, Mulholland, N, & Skull, S. (2004). Demographics and utilisation of health services by paediatric refugees from East Africa: implications for service planning and provision. Aust Health Rev, 27(2), 40-45.
Correa-Velez I, Gifford S, Correa-Velez I, Gifford S, Bice S. (2005) Australian health policy on access to medical care for refugees and asylum seekers. Aust N Z Health Policy; (2) 23. http://www.anzhealthpolicy.com/content/2/1/23
Correa-Velez I, Z Ansari, V Sundararajan and colleagues (2007), A six-year descriptive analysis of hospitalizations for ambulatory care sensitive conditions among people born in refugee-source countries, Population Health Metrics.
Department of Human Services, Southern Metropolitan Region (2009) Understanding the client experience: Refugees accessing and utilising the health system in Australia. DHS, Victoria. This report provides an overview of the literature in the field of refugees' experiences accessing and utilising the health system in Australia to inform the planning of health services to better cater for the needs of refugees in the Southern Metropolitan Region.
Davidson N et al (2004) Comprehensive health assessment for newly arrived refugee children in Australia. Journal Paediatric Child Health. 2004 Sep-Oct;40(9-10):562-8.
Davidson N, Skull S, et al. (2007) Equitable access to dental care for an at-risk group: a review of services for Australian refugees. Australian and New Zealand Journal of Public Health (1):73–80.
Hale K, Wood N, et al. (2006) Camp to clinic: a refugee journey MJA, 185 (11/12):589- 90.
Henderson, S. & Kendall, E. (2011). Culturally and linguistically diverse peoples' knowledge of accessibility and utilisation of health services: exploring the need for improvement in health service delivery. Australian Journal of Primary Health, 17 (2): 195-201. With 28 per cent of Australia's population having a culturally and linguistically diverse (CALD) background, the health system faces an increasing challenge to provide accessible and culturally competent health care. The objective of the study was to examine the extent to which four prominent CALD communities (Sudanese, Afghani, Pacific Islander and Burmese) access and use health services in Logan, Queensland.
Huang Y-T, Phillips CB (2009). Bridging the barrier to using telephone interpreters in general practice. Australian Family Physician (in press).
Jackson Bowers, E. & Cheng, I. (2010). Meeting the primary health care needs of refugees and asylum seekers. PHCRIS Research Roundup, December issue, 16. This discussion paper examines the health needs and associated primary health care challenges for refugees and asylum seekers in Australia and highlights the need for new models of primary health care that can provide critical services for refugees and asylum seekers.
Johnson D (2007) Rates of Infectious Diseases and Nutritional Deficiencies in newly arrived African Refugees. Government of South Australia, Central Northern Adelaide Health Service.
Johnson D, Ziersch A, Burgess T. (2008) ‘I don’t think general practice should be the front line’: Experiences of general practitioners working with refugees in South Australia. Australia and New Zealand Health Policy. 5:20.
Kelly, M. (2008) 'Greater Dandenong Community Health Nurse Project: an in-depth description of the Refugee Health Nurse Program position based at the Greater Dandenong Community Health Service.' Bundoora, Refugee Health Research Centre: La Trobe University and Foundation House. http://www.latrobe.edu.au/larrc/publications/reports
Kokanovic, R., May, C., Dowrick, C., Furler, J., Newton, D. & Gunn, J. (2010). Negotiations of distress between East Timorese and Vietnamese refugees and their family doctors in Melbourne. Sociology of Health and Illness, 32(4): 511-527.
Lehn A (1997) Recent Immigrant’s Health and Their Utilisation of Medical Services. Results from the Longitudinal Survey of Immigrants to Australia, Department of Immigration and Multicultural Affairs Immigration Update March Quarter 32-38.
Martin JA, Mak DB. (2006) Changing faces: A review of infectious disease screening of refugees by the Migrant Health Unit, Western Australia in 2003 and 2004. MJA 185 (11-12):607-10.
Mollica, R. F. (2011). Medical best practices for the treatment of torture survivors, Torture, 21 (1) 8 - 17. This article brings together medical practice research for torture survivors covering specialised clinics, medical assessment and screening, and a range of medical interventions.
Murray R, Davis J, Krause V, Biggs B, Lemoh C et. al, (2008) Guidelines for the Diagnosis, management and prevention of infections in recently arrived refugees. Australian Society for Infectious Diseases Writing Group.
Murray S & Skull S. (2005) Hurdles to health: immigrant and refugee health care in Australia. Australian Health Review, 29 (1):25-29.
Ngeow J, Skull S, Biggs B (2000) Assessment of the Health and Vaccination Status of Recently Arrived Immigrants in Australia; African Community Health Project. Victorian Infectious Diseases Service and the Department of Medicine, University of Melbourne.
Silove D, Steel Z, Susljik I, Frommer N, Loneragan C, Brooks R, le Touze D, Manicavasagar V, Coello M, Smith M and Harris E. (2006)’Torture, mental health status and the outcomes of refugee applications among recently arrived asylum seekers in Australia’. International Journal of Migration, Health and Social Care, 2(1):4-14
Smith M (2003) Health care for refugees. Asia Pacific Family Medicine. (2):71-23.
Tiong A, Patel, M, Gardiner J, Ryan R, Linton, K, Walker K, Scopel J, Biggs B (2006) Health issues in newly arrived African refugees attending general practice clinics in Melbourne. MJA, 185 (11/12): 602-606.
Walker K (2005) ‘I would rather they tell me’: Sudanese refugees’ experiences of health assessments: A pilot study. Department of General Practice, Monash University, Victoria.
Wong, E., Marshal, G., Schell, T., Elliot, M., Babey, S. & Hambarsoomians, K. (2010). The unusually poor physical health status of Cambodian refugees two decades after resettlement. Journal of Immigrant and Minority Health, DOI: 10.1007/s10903-010-9392-y.
Woodland, L., Burgner, D., Paxton, G. & Zwi, K. (2010). Health service delivery for newly arrived refugee children: a framework for good practice. Journal of Paediatrics and Child Health, 46 (1): 560-567.
Young, M., McCall, B. & Heel, K. (2010). The impact of pre-departure screening and treatment on notifications of malaria in refugees in south-east Queensland. Communicable Diseases Intelligence, 34 (1): 37-40. Article available in full.