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Refugees
around the world suffer health effects of human rights abuses.
Links to specific human rights abuses of residents in
China, Sri Lanka, Bangladesh, Chad, Zimbabwe, Columbia,
India, Angola, Bhutanese in Nepal, Sierra Leoneans in Guinea.
Physician receives Human Rights
Award What is the country and the achievement
of this heroic health professional? Read this
award winner's comments on
What constitutes torture
2006 Global Trends: Refugees, Asylum-seekers, Returnees,
Internally Displaced and Stateless Persons
Is the refugee population growing? What
portion of refugees were voluntarily repatriated last
year? Were able to be resettled elsewhere?
Are Child Asylum Seekers in the US
tortured by being placed in prisons?
Background on Child Asylum Seekers in Detention
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A physician, Dr. Mohammed Ahmed
Abdallah, recently received the 2007 Robert Kennedy Human Rights
Award in Washington DC. In what country does he work and
what is his contribution to health and human rights?
Email your answer to <nwosu@etsu.edu>
by 4:30 PM December 7. As always, the answer is in a link found in the
current newsletter. A prize is awarded to one winner, selected
at random among those who submit the correct answer.
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Answer to the
November Question:
The Agency for Healthcare Research
and Quality found in a 2004 survey of gender, racial and ethnic
disparities in diabetic care that better rates of screening for
annual eye exam, foot exam, and influenza immunization would
benefit all patients, but these services would especially reduce
diabetic complications among Hispanics and non-
Hispanic Blacks.
Gender differences across racial and ethnic groups in the
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Do you know what kinds of toys are age appropriate? What
is the parent's role before and after purchasing a toy?
Discussion questions for teaching parents.