Medical Issues Internationally Adopted Children

Medical Issues With Intercountry Adoption - Child Welfare

https://www.childwelfare.gov/topics/adoption/adoptive/choices/other-country/medical-issues/

This section provides information on health and development issues relevant to children adopted from other countries. Health and developmental considerations for children adopted internationally; Preadoption and postadoption medical assessments; Intercountry adoption clinics and doctors; Health and dev… See more

International Adoption: Health Guidance and the Immigration …

https://www.cdc.gov/immigrantrefugeehealth/adoption/index.html

Children born in other areas of the world may have different health problems from those of children raised in the United States. Children may have been exposed to vaccine …

Comprehensive Health Evaluation of the Newly Adopted Child

https://publications.aap.org/pediatrics/article/143/5/e20190657/37176/Comprehensive-Health-Evaluation-of-the-Newly

Children adopted from foster care and children adopted from institutions are at an increased risk of mental health disorders, including socioemotional problems. 8, …

Medical Issues in Internationally Adopted Children

https://adoption.com/medical-issues-in-internationally-adopted-children

International adoption: a health and developmental prospective

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/15731965/

Abstract. Adoptions from international countries have become an option for many US families, with over 150,000 children adopted in the past 14 years. Typically, internationally …

Medical Issues in Adoption - Johns Hopkins All Children's Hospital

https://www.hopkinsallchildrens.org/Patients-Families/Health-Library/HealthDocNew/Medical-Issues-in-Adoption

Internationally adopted children can have other immediate medical problems. These may include infections like scabies, lice, latent tuberculosis, and intestinal parasites; …