Description of a fitness to travel health assessment evaluation tool for displaced Albanian Kosovars in the former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia

• Published in: Journal of epidemiology and community health (1979) Vol. 56; no. 3; pp. 238 - 239
• Main Authors: MacPherson, D W, Weekers, J, Gushulak, B D, O'Rourke, T M D, Stiles, C
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: England BMJ Publishing Group Ltd 01.03.2002; BMJ Publishing Group; BMJ Publishing Group LTD; BMJ Group
• Subjects: Female; Health aspects; health assessment; Health Surveys; Host country; Human migration; Humanitarian aid; humanitarian evacuation; Humans; International cooperation; International organizations; Letter to the Editor; Letters to the Editor; Macedonia (Republic); Male; Planning; Practice Guidelines as Topic; refugee; Refugees; Refugees, Political; Travel; United Nations; Yugoslavia - ethnology; Yugoslavia; Macedonia (Republic); Kosovo
• ISSN: 0143-005X; 1470-2738
• DOI: 10.1136/jech.56.3.238

Of the remaining refugees who travelled under the HEP, approximately 20 000 left Macedonia without a health assessment, and approximately 30 000 received a health assessment by the receiving host country on arrival. 3 A health assessment tool was designed, validated, and implemented, to measure immediate health issues that may have affected the ability for the person to be transported in a safe and humanitarian manner by air craft. A triage, colour coded tool was designed to reflect the following fitness to travel status: green-no significant health issues; yellow-non-urgent medical issues requiring routine follow up on arrival at the host country; red-urgent medical issues requiring immediate medical assessment on arrival in host country.