Indicator Profile of Refugee Arrivals

Why Is This Important?

A refugee is any person who is unable or unwilling to return to their country because of fear of persecution on account of race, religion, nationality, membership in a particular social group, or political opinion. Refugees often flee their homes with very few possessions and may spend years in refugee camps living under very difficult conditions prior to being resettled in the U.S.

Refugees can introduce and transmit communicable diseases from foreign countries; therefore, it is important to understand newly-settled populations and the health problems common to the areas they have arrived from.

Number of Refugee Arrivals, Utah, 1998-2007

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Data Sources

Bureau of Communicable Disease Control, Utah Department of Health; 

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Definition

Number of refugee arrivals.

How We Calculated the Rates

Numerator: Number of refugee arrivals.
Denominator: Not applicable.

Page Content Updated On 05/19/08, Published on 05/23/08
Tuberculosis Control and Refugee Health Program, Office of Communicable Disease Control, Division of Epidemiology and Laboratory Services, Utah Department of Health, Salt Lake City, UT 84114-2105, Telephone: 801-538-6096, Fax: 801-538-9913, Website: http://www.health.utah.gov/els/hivaids/tb/tbrefugee.html, Contact: Cristie Chesler, Program Manager; Jerry Carlile, Epidemiologist, Email: cchesler@utah.gov, jcarlile@utah.gov
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Content updated: Fri, 23 May 2008 15:10:48 MDT