Initial Health Assessments for Newly Arrived Migrants, Refugees, and Asylum Seekers

Overview

Journal BMJ

Specialty General Medicine

Date 2022 Apr 28

PMID 35483723

Authors

Felicity Knights

Shazia Munir

Haja Ahmed

Sally Hargreaves

Affiliations

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