The challenges of child refugee health: Everyone’s responsibility
17 October 2017
Location:
Royal Society of Medicine, London
Summary:
This is one of the few multidisciplinary and inter-sectoral events aimed not only at informing health practitioners about the migration crisis but also aimed at equipping them to be able to respond through their work in the clinic service improvement and advocacy.
Full Details:
The event provides a unique opportunity to:
- Gain exposure to hard to obtain curriculum competences in public, mental and global health.
- Obtain personal insight into the migrant experience of health and illness.
- Network with leading players in migrant issues.
and it will include workshops on
- Identification of and dealing with female genital mutilation in children.
- Effects of migration on child health and development.
- The mental health impacts of the journey of the child migrant.
- A primer on infectious diseases in child migrants.
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