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Refugee Health
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Tuberculosis

Refugee Health Training;
Advanced Public Health Skills
June 29, 2010 - Presentations and Handouts

8:40 – 9:25               

Refresher – How Refugees Come to Wisconsin (PDF, 13.4 KB)
Natasa Torbica Handout
  (PDF, 248 KB)
Elvira Asuncion (PDF, 32 KB)
Excludible Conditions and Diseases of Public Health Significance (Exit DHS)
Office of Refugee Resettlement State Letter Describing Special Immigrant Visas

9:25 – 10:10              

Immigration and Public Benefits
Badgercare Plus Q&A
(PDF, 42 KB)
Badgercare Plus for Immigrant Children and Pregnant Women
(PDF, 42 KB)
Eligibility of Non-citizens
(PDF, 29 KB)
US Citizen and Immigrants in Healthcare Reform
(PDF, 124 KB)
 Wisconsin Emergency Medicaid Benefit Fact Sheet
 Tax Returns You Didn't Know You Could Get 
  - English (PDF, 36 KB), Spanish (PDF, 36 KB), Hmong (PDF, 36 KB)
  Federal Poverty Limits 2009-2010  (PDF, 173 KB)

10:10 – 10:20              

Break

10:20 – 11:35              

H1N1 Lessons Learned – Public Health Response to Vulnerable Population
Inshirah Farhoud (PDF, 27 KB)
Georgia Cameron (PDF 13 MB)

CDC Refugee Focus Groups Information (PDF, 47 KB)
The “2009 H1N1 Influenza Response: After Action Report and Improvement Plan”  addresses the Division of Public Health’s response to the H1N1 event during the fall of 2009. 

11:35 – 12:20              

Networking Lunch    

12:20 – 1:35              

Strategies for Successful Cross-Cultural Communication (PDF, 2.2 MB)
Presentation Outline
(PDF, 12 KB)
Working with refugees from various cultures:

Iraqi  (PDF, 21 KB),  - Burmese  (PDF, 46 KB),  - Hmong  (PDF, 83 KB)

1:35 – 2:35                 

Providing Care to Somali Bantu Immigrants (PDF, 1052 KB)

2:35 – 2:45                  

Break

2:45 – 3:45                 

Health Literacy - It's Not the Same Old Song (PDF, 958 KB)
Ask Me 3 (Exit DHS)

3:45 – 4:30                 

Accessing the Healthcare System after Health Screening – How Do Refugees Connect? (PDF, 94 KB)

 

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