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Management of Refugees and International Adoptees

Refugee children and international adoptees have special medical considerations that must be addressed. Providers must be aware of the immigration history, where, and under what circumstances the child lived and migrated to the United States. Federal guidelines exist regarding which infections shoul...

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Autor principal: Waggoner-Fountain, Linda A.
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Elsevier Inc. 2017
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7118462/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/28734520
http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.pcl.2017.03.011
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description Refugee children and international adoptees have special medical considerations that must be addressed. Providers must be aware of the immigration history, where, and under what circumstances the child lived and migrated to the United States. Federal guidelines exist regarding which infections should be screened for, and how and when and which vaccines should be administered.
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spelling pubmed-71184622020-04-03 Management of Refugees and International Adoptees Waggoner-Fountain, Linda A. Pediatr Clin North Am Article Refugee children and international adoptees have special medical considerations that must be addressed. Providers must be aware of the immigration history, where, and under what circumstances the child lived and migrated to the United States. Federal guidelines exist regarding which infections should be screened for, and how and when and which vaccines should be administered. Elsevier Inc. 2017-08 2017-07-20 /pmc/articles/PMC7118462/ /pubmed/28734520 http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.pcl.2017.03.011 Text en © 2017 Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved. Since January 2020 Elsevier has created a COVID-19 resource centre with free information in English and Mandarin on the novel coronavirus COVID-19. The COVID-19 resource centre is hosted on Elsevier Connect, the company's public news and information website. Elsevier hereby grants permission to make all its COVID-19-related research that is available on the COVID-19 resource centre - including this research content - immediately available in PubMed Central and other publicly funded repositories, such as the WHO COVID database with rights for unrestricted research re-use and analyses in any form or by any means with acknowledgement of the original source. These permissions are granted for free by Elsevier for as long as the COVID-19 resource centre remains active.
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