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Haiti and the HÔpital Albert Schweitzer
- MICHELE BARRY, M.D.;
- SALLY K. STANSFIELD, M.D.; and
- FRANK J. BIA, M.D., M.P.H.
- Yale University School of Medicine, New Haven, Connecticut;
- Fort Detrick, Frederick, Maryland
- The West Haven Veterans Administration Medical Center, West Haven, Connecticut
Excerpt
Haiti, occupying the western third of the Caribbean island of Hispaniola (Figure 1), has recently attracted the attention of the U. S. health community as the source of a large influx of refugees into the United States. These refugees are leaving a country where the life expectancy in 1978 was 47.5 years and infant mortality was 150 per thousand live births (1). Haiti is one of the poorest countries in the Western hemisphere, with a per capita income of $304 in 1980 (2). Eighty-five percent of the rural population is believed to live below the absolute poverty level (3). This
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Acknowledgments
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS: The authors thank Mary Murray, Deborah Beauvais, and Ruth Gemmell for preparing the manuscript.
Article and Author Information
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▸Requests for reprints should be addressed to Michele Barry, M.D.; General Medicine Section, Department of Internal Medicine, Yale University School of Medicine, 333 Cedar Street; New Haven, CT 06510.
