Curative medicine or community health? Appropriate health services with refugees
Simmonds, S.P.
Journal of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene 83(2): 49-52
1980
ISSN/ISBN: 0022-5304 PMID: 7381981 Document Number: 154924
Health teams from the United Kingdom are being increasingly sent as relief workers to refugee camps all over the world. It is proposed that a re-assessment of the type, skills and attitudes of health workers recruited to work among refugees is urgently needed.
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