Strategies in Infectious Disease Prevention and Management Among US-Bound Refugee Children

For multiple reasons, including exposure to violence or trauma, nutritional deficiencies, and an inconsistent medical infrastructure, refugee children are at an increased risk for many infectious diseases. Among these are tuberculosis, malaria, helminthic infections, and neglected tropical diseases....

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Published in:Current problems in pediatric and adolescent health care 2014-08, Vol.44 (7), p.196-207
Main Authors: Dang, Khoi, MD, Tribble, Alison C., MD
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (U.S.)
Child
Child, Preschool
Educational Status
Health Education - organization & administration
Health Services Accessibility - organization & administration
Humans
Infant
Intestinal Diseases, Parasitic - epidemiology
Intestinal Diseases, Parasitic - ethnology
Intestinal Diseases, Parasitic - prevention & control
Malaria - epidemiology
Malaria - ethnology
Malaria - prevention & control
Mass Screening
Nutritional Status
Pediatrics
Population Surveillance
Refugees
Risk Factors
Tuberculosis - epidemiology
Tuberculosis - ethnology
Tuberculosis - prevention & control
United States
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Summary:For multiple reasons, including exposure to violence or trauma, nutritional deficiencies, and an inconsistent medical infrastructure, refugee children are at an increased risk for many infectious diseases. Among these are tuberculosis, malaria, helminthic infections, and neglected tropical diseases. Our purposes are to review the US Centers for Disease Control and Preventionʼs pre-departure program of testing and presumptive therapy for these infections and to review the possible presentations, symptomatology, diagnostic tools, and recommended therapies, if necessary, upon arrival to the US. An understanding of these non-endemic infections, their diagnosis, and their management will improve the domestic medical exam and help to ease the transition for newly arrived immigrant children, their families, and their receiving communities.
ISSN:1538-5442
1538-3199
DOI:10.1016/j.cppeds.2014.03.004