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Clinical guidelines

• Initial assessment and screening
  
• Anaemia and iron deficiency
• Birth date issues
• Clinical practice guidelineÌý(focus on ED presentations)
• Chagas disease
  
• Developmental assessment
• Disability
• Education assessment
  
• Growth and nutrition
• Helicobacter pylori
• Hepatitis B screening
• Immunisation catch-up
  
• Malaria screening
• Mental health
• Parasite infections
• Schistosomiasis
  
• Strongyloidiasis
• STI screening
• Syphilis screening
• Tuberculosis screening
• Vitamin A
  
• Vitamin B12
• Vitamin D, Ìý²¹²Ô»å vitamin D supplements photoboard
  

Other guidelines/resources

• Adolescent health
• Arsenic contamination of traditional Burmese medicinesÌýÌý
  
  • Arsenic - further information
  • (Lead - further information)
• Asylum seekersÌý(also see SRSS - summary for clinicians)
  
• Care of children in immigration detention (RCH procedure - intranet only)
• Caseworker resources
• Critical health alerts
  
• Ìý- Family Planning Victoria
• HAPlite - summary for clinicians
• Interpreters
• Lead - further informationÌýÌý
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• Refugee policy and timeline
• SRSS - summary for clinicians
• Syrian refugees - key issues
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Clinical guidelines - external

General refugee guidelines

• ASID-RHEANA Refugee GuidelinesÌý(2016)
  • Ìý
• Ìý(2018) primary care guidelines using ASID-RHEANA Refugee Guidelines - also see (links hard to find):
  • Child/adolescentÌýÌý
  • ÌýPlease contact us if you would like a hard copy
    
• DHA - Ìý(Nov 2025) andÌýÌý(Aug 2024)
  
• Ìýalso see
• 
  
• Ìý(various American guidelines)
  

Tuberculosis

• , Victorian Child and Adolescent Tuberculosis screening (2021), Ìý
• Ìý(various)
• Ìý- for age 18y+ (likely less accurate for young children) - helpful if trying to explain risk to a family
  
• Ìý(2016, updated 2024)
• Ìý(NTAC), includingÌý
  
  • Ìý(to 2018)
  • Ìý(2022)
  • Ìý(2017)
    
  • Ìý(2015)
    
  • Ìý(2017)
    
• WHO:ÌýÌý- includes consolidated guidelines:
  • Ìý(2020)
  • Ìý(2022)
  • (to 2024)

CDC - other

• including , Ìý²¹²Ô»å Ìý(multiple guidelines under each link)
• Ìý
  

^{Immigrant health resources. UpdatedÌýFeb 2026. Contact:Ìýgeorgia.paxton@rch.org.au}