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Bug Breakfast* in the Bulletin: refugee health

Katina Kardamanidis A D , Mitchell M. Smith B and Sanjyot Vagholkar C
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A NSW Public Health Officer Training Program, NSW Department of Health.

B NSW Refugee Health Service.

C General Practice Unit, Fairfield Hospital.

D Corresponding author. Email: katina.kardamanidis@doh.health.nsw.gov.au

NSW Public Health Bulletin 18(2) 26-27 https://doi.org/10.1071/NB07015
Published: 11 May 2007


References


[1] United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees. Article 1a, 1951 convention relating to the status of refugees. Available at http://www.unhcr.org/protect/3c0762ea4.html. Accessed 2 January 2007.

[2] United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees. Definitions and obligations. Available at http://www.unhcr.org.au/basicdef.shtml#top. Accessed 2 January 2007.

[3] Department of Immigration and Citizenship. Migrating as a refugee or humanitarian entrant. Available at http://www.immi.gov.au/refugee/migrating/index.htm. Accessed 2 January 2007.

[4] Correa-Velez I,  Gifford S,  Bice S. Australian health policy on access to medical care for refugees and asylum seekers. Aust N Z Health Policy 2005; 2 23.
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[5] Swaminathan A,  Gosbell I,  Zwar N,  Douglas M. Tungiasis in recently arrived African refugees. Med J Aust 2005; 183(1): 51.
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[6] Population Health Division. The health of the people of New South Wales: report of the Chief Health Officer, 2004. Sydney: NSW Department of Health, 2004.

[7] Australian Human Rights and Equal Opportunity Commission (HREOC). A report on visits to immigration detention facilities by the human rights commissioner, 2001. Available at http://www.humanrights.gov.au/human_rights/idc/index.html. Accessed 2 January 2007.

[8] Public Health Association Australia. Asylum seekers: mandatory detention. Available at http://www.phaa.net.au/policy/ASYLUMSEEKERSJF.htm. Accessed 2 January 2007.

[9] Public Health Association Australia. Refugee health. Available at http://www.phaa.net.au/policy/Refugee%20health%20F.htm. Accessed 2 January 2007.




* Bug Breakfast is the name given to a monthly series of hour-long seminars on communicable diseases delivered by the NSW Department of Health’s Division of Population Health.