The Practice of Immigration Health in Complex Emergency Situations - A Case Study of Kosovo from March to July 1999
The need to rapidly transport refugees, displaced as a result of evolving complex humanitarian emergencies creates challenges for those refugee-receiving nations that require formaI immigration medical screening of these populations. Balancing the need to expediently resettle the refugees with these...
| Main Authors: | , , , |
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| Format: | Article |
| Language: | English |
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York University Libraries
2000-01-01
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| Series: | Refuge |
| Online Access: | https://refuge.journals.yorku.ca/index.php/refuge/article/view/22053 |
| Summary: | The need to rapidly transport refugees,
displaced as a result of evolving complex
humanitarian emergencies creates challenges
for those refugee-receiving nations
that require formaI immigration
medical screening of these populations.
Balancing the need to expediently resettle
the refugees with these legislative and
regulatory medical requirements can be
logistically and operationally difficult.
During the 1999 Kosovo crisis, the Humanitarian
Evacuation Programme
from the Former Yugoslav Republic of
Macedonia rapidly moved large numbers
of Kosovar Albanian refugees to nations
with existing formal immigration
medical screening requirements. This
paper describes the successful management and delivery
of immigration health
services during this complicated international
event. |
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| ISSN: | 0229-5113 1920-7336 |