Catalogue by countries / What American Doctors Need to Know About Russian Children
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| ISS/IRC Code | TOOL-ADOPT US-039 |
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| Title | What American Doctors Need to Know About Russian Children |
| Author | JENISTA Jerri Ann |
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| Date published/issue | 00-00-0000 |
| Date received | 00-00-1996 |
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| Publisher | Jerri Ann Jenista, MD, 551 Second Street, Ann Arbor, MI 48103, USA |
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| Type of material | Monograph |
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UNITED STATES |
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Child-health-info Adoption-intercountry Special-needs-child |
| Free text | The authors reports on the unreliability of medical information available on children adopted from Russia, making it very difficult for an American physician to assess the health condition of the child. She presents some of the reasons for discrepancies existing in medical reports, such as terminology problems and lack of expertise and proposes solutions to help solve this situation so that parents can make informed decisions on adopting "special needs" children from abroad. Filed with this article - list of other articles on the health of internationally adopted children by Dr. Jenista |
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