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Refugee health care is the provision of health services to refugees and refugee claimants. As early as 2009, health researchers identified particular medical needs and health vulnerabilities amongst these populations. [ 1 ]
The Canadian Centre for Refugee and Immigrant Health Care is a healthcare clinic in Scarborough, Toronto, that provides free healthcare to refugee and immigrants. [1] [2] [3] The centre, which opened in 1999, is led by Paul Caulford M.D. As of 2021 it had 70 healthcare professionals providing care.
The clinic provides free healthcare to immigrants and refugees who would otherwise be without access to healthcare [5] five days and two evenings a week. [6] In 2013 shortly after Canada's Federal Conservative government slashed Interim Federal Health Care to refugees in Canada Caulford set to work documenting the harm this caused.
The Immigration Act, 1976, insured by the Parliament of Canada, was the first immigration legislation to clearly outline the objectives of Canadian immigration policy, define refugees as a distinct class of immigrants, and mandate the Canadian government to consult with other levels of government in the planning and management of immigration.
A hospital in a camp for refugees of the Nigerian-Biagfran Civil War, late 1960s (CDC). Refugee health is the field of study on the health effects experienced by people who have been displaced into another country or even to another part of the world, as a result of unsafe circumstances such as war or persecution.
Pages in category "Refugee aid organizations in Canada" ... Canadian Centre for Refugee and Immigrant Health Care; Canadian Council for Refugees;
An immersive reporting series hosted by Susan Sarandon chronicling the refugee crisis as it unfolds on the ground These are the stories you liked, loved and shared the most in 2015. a thousand miles in their shoes
Anna Banerji M.D., O. Ont. is a Toronto infectious disease doctor, tropical disease specialist, pediatrician, public health specialist, academic, and activist. [1] She is the founder and chair of both the North American Refugee Health Conference in Canada [2] and the Indigenous Health Conference, [3] and the co-founder of the Society of Refugee Healthcare Providers. [4]