title: Health screening of newly resettled refugees in a primary care setting.
abstract: Since October 2008, the Medicine/Pediatrics Primary Care Center (MPPCC) has been working with Rhode Island's refugee resettlement agency to coordinate medial care for newly resettled adults and adolescent refugees. The process includes obtaining extensive screening labs and providing immunizations. This review discusses the results of selected screening tests for latent TB, stool parasites, vitamin D, and vaccine-preventable diseases, such as hepatitis, performed as part of the initial intake exam during the first two years of operation of the MPPCC Refugee Clinic.
authors: Infectious Disease Fellow at the University of Washington, Seattle. Previously she was a Fogarty International Clinical Research Fellow with the UNC Project in Lilongwe, Malawi, and a former Medicine/Pediatrics Resident at Rhode Island Hospital.
authors: Sylvia
authors: S
authors: Lacourse
authors: Natasha
authors: N
authors: Rybak
authors: Carol
authors: C
authors: Lewis
authors: Jennifer
authors: J
authors: Gartman
authors: Jerome
authors: J
authors: Larkin
authors: Suzanne
authors: S
authors: McLaughlin
authors: Elizabeth T
authors: ET
authors: Toll
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D000328:Adult; D000368:Aged; D000369:Aged, 80 and over; D002648:Child; D002675:Child, Preschool; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D007223:Infant; D008297:Male; D008403:Mass Screening / Q000379:methods*; D008875:Middle Aged; D011320:Primary Health Care; D012036:Refugees; D012237:Rhode Island
keywords: Medicine/ Pediatrics Primary Care Center; Refugee clinic; TB; hepatitis
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