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Training refugees as primary health care workers: Past imperfect, future conditional
Author(s) -
Simmonds Stephanie,
Cuttst Felicity,
Dick Bruce
Publication year - 1985
Publication title -
disasters
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.744
H-Index - 70
eISSN - 1467-7717
pISSN - 0361-3666
DOI - 10.1111/j.1467-7717.1985.tb00912.x
Subject(s) - refugee , training (meteorology) , work (physics) , health care , occupational safety and health , suicide prevention , poison control , human factors and ergonomics , medicine , nursing , medical emergency , political science , engineering , mechanical engineering , pathology , meteorology , law , physics
Many problems have been encountered in the planning and implementation of health care in refugee camps, and more specifically in the training of refugees as primary health care workers. A review of the published literature and a “survey” of the opinions and experiences of refugee, national and international health personnel regarding training has therefore been undertaken to provide an overview of what has been done and to make recommendations for future work. The review highlights the need to reallocate resources away from high visibility emergency aid to development activities, such as training, that will create an infrastructure for primary health care and promote self‐reliance.