HLTH 230b Lecture Notes - Lecture 10: American Friends Service Committee, Middle East Respiratory Syndrome, Asylum Seeker

• School: Yale University
• Department: Global Health Studies
• Course: HLTH 230b
• Professor: Kristina Talbert- Slagle

Document Summary

4/11/17: destabilizing effects of conflict (dr. katherine mckenzie) Medical evaluations of asylum seekers: concept of human rights underpins this, specialized evaluations of scars, injuries, etc. Istanbul protocol manual: contains taxonomy of scars, evaluates consistencies of scars, scars are usually nonspecific and therefore difficult to undoubtedly characterize. Common forms of torture: burns, blunt trauma/beatings, sharp trauma, forced positioning, used by u. s. govt. during war on terror in iraq, waterboarding, also used by u. s. Human rights groups: physicians for human rights. Intersection of medicine, forensic science, and human rights: healthright international, american friends service committee, yale center for asylum medicine. Female genital mutilation/cutting: accepted reason to apply for asylum, social group and gender-based persecution. If returned to country, would continue to be persecuted based on gender. 4/18/17: emerging infectious diseases, bioterrorism, and global health security. Viruses: mers (middle eastern respiratory syndrome, coronavirus, mrsa, sars, coronavirus. Animal reservoirs: ebola, droplet, hiv, bloodborne, semen, zika, vector borne.