"Health Status of Pediatric Refugees in Portland, Maine."

According to an abstract submitted by the authors to the 45th Annual Meeting of the American Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene, held December 1-5, 1996, in Baltimore, Maryland, "Recent increases in refugee arrivals to areas of the United States with little previous experience in refugee health have challenged local health care providers to manage a variety of unfamiliar conditions. Local assessment of the health status of refugee and immigrant populations is essential to providing responsible care. The majority of refugees arriving to Portland, Maine receive initial health care evaluations at the Maine Medical Center's International Clinic. We reviewed the charts of 132 refugees...

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