Welcome to Refugee Health - Vancouver

Refugee Health Vancouver is a practical resource to support clinicians who provide care to refugees in British Columbia.

Need a patient handout on diabetes in Farsi? Looking for a Spanish-speaking dentist in Vancouver who offers reduced fees? Not sure what convention refugees are, why they would flee Myanmar, or how you can bill to care for them? This site pulls together the answers for you.

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Medical Guidelines

Nutrition

Iron deficiency anemia: evidence review for newly arriving immigrants and refugees from Canadian Guidelines on Immigrant Health. July 2011.

Nutrition country profiles by the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO). 

(July 25, 2011)
Reviewed/updated by Martina Scholtens MD (September 29, 2015)