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

Pregnancy + birth

Clinician resources

  • BC Prenatal Genetic Screening Program, interactive requisition, list of NT sites and algorithms.

Patient education

  • Translated patient handouts
  • Changes to the woman's body in pregnancy | visual aid

Guidelines

  • Screening during pregnancy: evidence review for newly arriving immigrants and refugees from Canadian Guidelines on Immigrant Health. July 2011.
  • Perinatal Services BC guidelines.
  • Motherisk: Treatment of nausea and vomiting in pregnancy
  • World Health Organization: Management of pregnancy, childbirth and the postpartum period in the presence of female genital mutilation.
  • US NLM: TOXNET Drugs and lactation database
  • SOGC: Fetal Soft Markers in Obstetric Ultrasound
  • SOGC: Management of twin pregnancies Part 1 and Part 2

  • BCRCP: Hepatitis C in the perinatal period

Community Resources

Submitted by Anonymous on April 5, 2016
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Written by Martina Scholtens MD CCFP (July 25, 2011)
Reviewed/updated by Martina Scholtens MD (April 5, 2016)