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Asylum Seekers and Refugees
Refugee Council
The largest organisation in the UK working with asylum seekers and refugees.
HARP (health for asylum seekers and refugees portal)
Extensive web resource for health professionals and volunteers working with asylum seekers and refugees. Also, lots of information, fact sheets, etc intended for asylum seekers and refugees.
Multikulti
This website aims to support citizenship through the delivery of culturally appropriate and accurately translated information in the following areas of welfare law - debt, employment, health, housing, immigration and welfare benefits.
Medical Foundation for the Care of Victims of Torture
Provides care and rehabilitation to survivors of torture and other forms of organised violence.
British Red Cross
The British Red Cross cares for people in crisis, both nationally and internationally.
NSW Multicultural Health Communication Service
(Australian site.) Large amount of multi-lingual health related information.
Further sources / more detailed information
Some non-UK sites
The following list popular non-UK health information sites with content aimed at the general public. They are mainly from the US. They have not been checked to see if information about the above topic is included but these large sites are comprehensive.
- Non-UK disease / illness sites
- Non-UK self-help / support group sites
More detailed medical information
The following list online sources of more detailed medical information, mainly from the UK. These sites are mainly aimed at health professionals, but are of interest to all. They have not been checked to see if information about the above topic is included, but information about most medical topics can usually be found.
- PatientPlus - hundreds of medical reference articles provided by Patient UK.
- Evidence Based Medicine - such as from Clinical Evidence, The Cochrane Library, etc.
- Database of UK Clinical Guidelines - from NICE, SIGN, Clinical Knowledge Summaries, etc.
- Medline - abstracts available from thousands of journals.
- Sites listing free online medical textbooks and journals.
- Sites listing free medical images - pictures, atlases, anatomy, skin diseases, etc.
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Pictures, diagrams, photos, images, etc.Evidence based medicine
Online textbooks and journals
A-Z of UK Guidelines
A-Z of Online Videos
Medline
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