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February 2005, Vol 95, No. 2 | American Journal of Public Health 196-199
© 2005 American Public Health Association
DOI: 10.2105/AJPH.2004.040311

FIELD ACTION REPORT

A Private-Sector Preferred Provider Network Model for Public Health Screening of Newly Resettled Refugees

Paul L. Geltman, MD, MPH and Jennifer Cochran, MPH

The authors are with the Refugee and Immigrant Health Program, Bureau of Communicable Disease Control, Massachusetts Department of Public Health, Jamaica Plain, Mass. Paul L. Geltman is also with the Department of Pediatrics, Boston University School of Medicine, Boston, Mass.

Correspondence: Requests for reprints should be sent to Paul L. Geltman, MD, MPH, Refugee and Immigrant Health Program, Massachusetts Department of Public Health, 305 South St, Jamaica Plain, MA 02130 (e-mail: paul.geltman{at}state.ma.us).

US law and regulations stipulate a process for the health screening of refugees. The responsibility of caring for refugees resettled in the United States rests, in part, with public health or welfare departments. Massachusetts has met its screening responsibilities through the innovative creation of a network of private preferred providers.

We explore the Massachusetts model of public–private collaboration within the context of federal refugee health priorities and current state fiscal restraints affecting public health programs, and demonstrate the model’s accomplishments.




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