Health care for refugees and displaced people
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Health care for refugees and displaced people
(Oxfam practical health guide, no. 9)
Oxfam, c1994
Available at 4 libraries
  Aomori
  Iwate
  Miyagi
  Akita
  Yamagata
  Fukushima
  Ibaraki
  Tochigi
  Gunma
  Saitama
  Chiba
  Tokyo
  Kanagawa
  Niigata
  Toyama
  Ishikawa
  Fukui
  Yamanashi
  Nagano
  Gifu
  Shizuoka
  Aichi
  Mie
  Shiga
  Kyoto
  Osaka
  Hyogo
  Nara
  Wakayama
  Tottori
  Shimane
  Okayama
  Hiroshima
  Yamaguchi
  Tokushima
  Kagawa
  Ehime
  Kochi
  Fukuoka
  Saga
  Nagasaki
  Kumamoto
  Oita
  Miyazaki
  Kagoshima
  Okinawa
  Korea
  China
  Thailand
  United Kingdom
  Germany
  Switzerland
  France
  Belgium
  Netherlands
  Sweden
  Norway
  United States of America
Description and Table of Contents
Description
Over the years Oxfam has been involved in a wide variety of health-related projects. The Practical Health Guides draw on this experience to put forward ideas on best practice in the provision of health care and services in developing countries. Drawing on the experience of Oxfam staff in many different emergency situations, this text is a short, practical introduction to the provision of health care in emergencies. It provides a checklist of the information required to build up a rapid picture of the situation and of healthcare needs and describes the implementation of health care procedures and the necessary facilities, including information on feeding, preventive health care, clinical care and control of common diseases such as measles, diarrhoea and malaria. Issues arising from long term displacement and information about evaluation are also provided. Detailed information on aspects of health care such as nutrition, deficiency diseases, drugs, water and treatment protocols is given in the form of appendices.
Table of Contents
- * Acknowledgements
- * Introduction
- * 1.Assessment and Planning
- * 1.1 Introduction
- * 1.2 Checklist of information required for assessment
- * 1.2.1Demography
- * 1.2.2 Cmp enviroment
- * 1.2.3 Logistics
- * 1.2.4 Shelter
- * 1.2.5 Enviromental health
- * Water
- * Sanitation and vector control
- * Hygiene promotion
- * 1.2.6 Food and nutrition
- * Nutritional status
- * Food availability
- * General ration
- * Selective feeding
- * 1.2.7 Health status and medical care
- * Mortality
- * Morbidity
- * Medical care
- * 1.2.8 Psycho-social isses
- * 1.3 Planning
- * 1.3.1 Assessment as the basis for planning
- * 1.3.2 Operational principles
- * Standardisation
- * Integration
- * Participation and co-ordination
- * Appropriate level of services
- * Equity and ease of access
- * Preventive and curative care
- * 1.2.3 General issues
- * 2.Implementation and monitoring
- * 2.1 Health Information System
- * 2.2 Food and nutrition
- * 2.2.1 Nutritional status
- * 2.2.2 General feeding
- * Purpose
- * Admission criteria
- * DIscharge criteria
- * Content
- * Method of distribution
- * 2.2.4 Therapeutic feeding
- * Purpose
- * Admission criteria
- * DIscharge criteria
- * Content
- * Method of distribution
- * 2.2.5 Monitoring
- * Nutritional surveillance
- * General ration programme
- * Supplementary and therapeutic feeding
- * 2.3 Preventive health care
- * 2.3.1 Preventive health care
- * 2.3.1 Enviromental Health
- * Water supply
- * Sanitation and waste disposal
- * Vector control
- * Shelter
- * 2.3.2 Immunisation
- * 2.3.3 Health promotion
- * 2.4 Control of communicable diseases
- * 2.4.1 Summary of main methods for controling diseases
- * 2.4.2 Investigating disease outbreakes (epidemics)
- * 2.4.3Control of common diseases
- * Measles
- * Diarrhoeal diseases
- * Bacillary dysentery
- * Malaria
- * Acute respiratory infections
- * Hepititis
- * Meningococcal meningitis
- * Turberculosis
- * HIV/AIDS 2.5 Clinical care
- * 2.5.1 Physical facilities, structures, staffing
- * Organisation of health centre
- * Staffing
- * Monitoring
- * 2.5.2 Health care for women and children
- * 2.5.3 Laboratory facilities
- * 2.5.4 Essential drugs and equipment
- * Drug procurement
- * 2.6 Psycosocial issues
- * 2.6.1 Identification of vulnerable groups
- * 2.6.2 Rehabilitation: strengthening community coping mechanisms
- * 2.6.3 Training in awareness of psychosocial issues
- * 2.6.4 Post-traumatic stress disorder
- * 2.6.5 Monitoring
- * 2.7 Training
- * 2.7.1 Training needs
- * 2.7.2 Training issues
- * 2.7.3 Training method
- * 3. Issues arising from long-term displacement
- * 3.1 Introduction
- * 3.2 Health Information System
- * 3.3 Nutrition
- * 3.3.1 Food rations
- * 3.3.2 Supplementary feeding programmes
- * 3.4 Environmental health
- * 3.5 Immunisation
- * 3.6 Health promotion
- * 3.7 Disease control
- * 3.8 Disability
- * 3.9 Clinical care
- * 3.10 Psycho-social issues
- * 3.11 Training
- * 4.Evaluation
- * 4.1 Purpose of evaluation
- * 4.2 Timing and scope of evaluation
- * 4.3 Information required for evaluation
- * 4.4 Types of indicator
- * 4.5 Data collection for evaluation
- * 4.6 Participatory evaluation
- * 4.7 Reporting and using the findings
- * Appendices
- * 1. Mortality rates
- * 2. Nutrition surveys
- * 3. Nutritional values of food aid commodities
- * 4. Vitamin and mineral deficiencies
- * 5. Supplementary feeding recipes
- 6. Water quality and chlorination
- * 7. Lists of essential drugs
- * 8.Treatment protocols for diarrhoea fever (and chloroquine-resistant malaria) acute respiratory infections
- * 9. Vaccine storage
- immunisation schedules
- drug storage
- * 10. Sample monitoring and surveillance form
- * References and further reading
- * Glossary
- * Index.
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