Resources
Clinical guidelines
- Clinical practice guideline(focus on ED presentations)
- Immigrant health clinic guidelines
- ASID guidelines [530KB PDF]
General resources and links
- Annual report: Immigrant health service 2007 [2MB PDF]
- Asylum seekers access to DHS funded services
- CDC diagnostic parasitology website
- CDC travel website
- DIAC community profiles
- DIAC cultural calendar
- Foundation house (includes Promoting Refugee Health Handbook)
- NSW refugee health service
- Nutrition resources
- RACP policy document refugee health
- Settlement support services
- UNHCR and 2008 Refugee Statistics
- Victorian refugee health network
- Victorian Transcultural Psychiatry Unit
- WHO profiles and vaccination schedules country of origin
- World maps
Documentation and referral forms
- DHS notification forms (Infectious diseases)
- Pharmacy: special access scheme
- RCH outpatient referral forms
- Results proforma[150KB PDF]
- Refugee health assessment tool[62KB PDF]
Translated health information
Further resources are available for RCH staff on the users drive under Immigrant health clinic.
- DHS Immunisation: In your language
- NSW Multicultural Health Communication Service
- Royal Women's Hospital translated fact sheets
- Travel medicine handouts (University of Minnesota)
- Vitamin D fact sheets
Picture based health information
Bilingual health professionals
- AMA doctor search - by language
- Mental health professionals (VTPU resource)
- Primary care - western region
- Primary care - southern region (2006 information)
Staff information
- DHS guidelines: Immunisation for health care workers (October 2007, [105 KB PDF])