Selected and compiled by Jacquelyn Coughlan, M.S.,M.L.S.

Assistance Association for Political Prisoners. (December 2005). The Darkness we See: Torture in Burma's Interrogation Centers and Prisons. Retrieved November 18, 2007, from http://www.aappb.org/tortour_report.pdf

Back Pack Health Worker Team. (n.d.) Chronic Emergency: Health and Human Rights in Eastern Burma. Retrieved August 29, 2007, from http://www.ibiblio.org/obl/docs3/ChronicEmergencyE-ocr.pdf

Office of Global Health Affairs.(2004). Background on potential health issues for Burmese refugees. Retrieved February 19, 2008, from http://www.globalhealth.gov/refugee/burmese_refugees_health.doc (20 pages).

Ba-Thike, K. (May 1997). Abortion: A public health problem in Myanmar. Reproductive Health Matters, 5(9), 94-100.

Belton, S. (April 2007). Borders of fertility: Unplanned pregnancy and unsafe abortion in Burmese women migrating to Thailand. Health Care for Women International, 28(4), 419-433.

Belton, S., & Whittaker, A. (October 2007). Kathy Pan, sticks and pummelling: Techniques used to induce abortion by Burmese women on the Thai border. Social Science & Medicine, 65(7), 1512-1523.

Beyrer, C., Suwanvanichkij, V., Mullany, L. C., Richards, A. K., et al. (October 2006). Responding to AIDS, tuberculoses, malaria, and emerging infectious diseases in Burma: Dilemmas of policy and practice. Public Library of Science, 3(10), 1733-1740.

Bodeker, G., Neumann, C., Lall, P., & Oo, Z. M. (2005). Traditional medicine use and healthworker training in a refugee setting at the Thai-Burma border. Journal of Refugee Studies, 18(1), 76-89.

Boisvert, M. (October 2000). A socio-cultural analysis of the Burmese Shin pyu ceremony. Journal of Beliefs and Values, 21(2), 203-211.

Bowles, E. (August 1998). From village to camp: Refugee camp life transition on the Thailand-Burma border. Forced Migration Review, 2, 11-14.

Bridging Refugee Youth & Chidren's Services. (2007). Burmese refugees- highlighted resources. Retrieved August 30, 2007, from http://www.brycs.org/documents/ResourcesBurmeseRefugees.pdf

Bridging Refugree Youth & Children's Services. (2007). BRYCS parenting conversations: Klee Thoo, a Burmese Karen father. Retrieved August 30, 2007 from http://www.brycs.org/Karen_interview.htm

Burma Humanitarian Mission. (n.d.) What the Burma Humanitarian Mission has already done for the people of Burma. Retrieved November 12, 2007, from http://www.burmamission.org/what_we_have_done.htm

Burmese Border Guidelines. Year 2003. Retrieved November 26, 2007, from http://www.ibiblio.org/obl/docs3/PdF%20FINAL%20ISSUES/BURMESE%20BORDER%20GUIDELINES(english).pdf

Capital Research Center. (October 2003). Christian Freedom International: Bringing hope to the persecuted of Burma. Retrieved August 27, 2007 from http://www.capitalresearch.org/pubs/pubs.html?id=157

Cardozo, B. L., Talley, L., Burton, A., & Crawford, C. (2004). Karenni refugees living in Thai-Burmese border camps: Traumatic experiences, mental health outcomes, and social functioning. Social Science & Medicine, 58, 2637-2644.

Center for Applied Linguistics. (June 2007). Refugees from Burma: Their backgrounds and refugee experiences. Retrieved August 30, 2007, from http://www.cal.org/co/pdffiles/refugeesfromburma.pdf

Center for Public Health and Human Rights. (March 2006). Responding to AIDS, TB, Malaria, and Emerging Infectious Diseases in Burma: Dilemmas of Policy and Practice. Retrieved November 12, 2007, from http://www.soros.org/initiatives/bpsai/articles_publications/publications/respondingtoaids_20060330

Cheah, J. (December 2002). Cultural identity and Burmese American Buddhists. Peace Review, 14(4), 415-419.

Chit, T. M., Kyi, H., & Thwin, A. (January 2003). Mothers' beliefs and attitudes towards child weight, child feeding and related practices in Myanmar. Nutrition and Health, 17(3), 231-254.

Drum Publication Group. A small, independent, community-based organization dedicated to promoting education and preserving the cultures of the people of Burma. Retrieved November 12, 2007, from http://www.drum.fastmail.fm/

Dudley, S. (December 1999) "Traditional" culture and refugee welfare in north-west Thailand. Forced Migration Review, 6, 5-8.

Ember, C. R., & Ember, M. (2004). Encyclopedia of medical anthropology health and illness in the world's cultures. New York: Kluwer Academic/Plenum.

Ethnomed. (June 2007). Evaluation of Tuberculosis Program Services for Burmese refugees in Thailand resettling to the United States. Retrieved September 6, 2007 from http://ethnomed.org/clin_topics/tb/cultural/Eval_TB_Burmese.pdf

Human Rights Watch. (September 1998). Unwanted and Unprotected: Burmese Refugees in Thailand. Retrieved November 19, 2007, from http://www.hrw.org/reports98/thai/

Kemmer, T. M., Bovill, M. E., Kongsomboon, W., Hansch, S. J., et al. (2003). Iron deficiency is unacceptably high in refugee children from Burma. Journal of Nutrition, 133(12), 4143-4149.

Kemp. C. (n.d.) Burmese: Health Beliefs and Practices. Retrieved August 30, 2007 from http://www3.baylor.edu/~Charles_Kemp/burman.htm

Lee, T. J., Mullany, L. C., Richards, A. K., Kuiper, H. K., et al. (July 2006). Mortality rates in conflict zones in Karen, Karenni, and Mon states in eastern Burma. Tropical Medicine and International Health, 11(7), 1119-1127.

Lutheran Immigration and Refugee Service. (n.d.) Burmese Refugees of Interest to LIRS in India & Thailand. Retrieved August 29, 2007 from http://www.lirs.org/InfoRes/PDFs/BurmeseReport.pdf

Luxemburger, C., White, N. J., Kuile, F., Singh, H. M., et al. (2003). Beri-beri: The major cause of infant mortality in Karen refugees. Transactions of the Royal Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene, 97, 251-255.

MacDonald, K. N. (1879). The practice of Medicine Among the Burmese, 1979 reprint. Edinburgh: Maclachlan and Stewart.

Matthews, B. (January 1999). Burma/Myanmar. The Round Table, 349, 77-96.

Metro, R. (December 2006). Developing history curricula to support mult-ethnic civil society among Burmese refugees and migrants. Retrieved August 29, 2007 from http://www.unhcr.org/research/RESEARCH/45890b542.pdf

Minnesota Department of Health. (April 2007). Karen Refugees from Burma. Retrieved August 27, 2007, from http://health.state.mn.us/divs/idepc/refugee/metrotf/karenarrival.pdf

Mullany, L. C., Maung, C., & Beyrer, C. (February 2003). HIV/AIDS knowledge, attitudes, and practices among Burmese migrant factory workers in Tak province, Thailand. AIDS care, 15(1), 63-70.

National Diabetes Education Program. (n.d.) NDEP's publications catalog. Retrieved November 10, 2006 from http://ndep.nih.gov/diabetes/pubs/catalog.htm

National Health and Education Committee (Burma). (January 2006). Health System Development Seminar. Retrieved August 29, 2007 from http://www.nhecburma.org/Reports/CnSeminarRep/Health%20Semi%20report.pdf

Neumann, C. (August 2003). Vanishing into the hills of Burma: Traditional Karen medicine. The Journal of Alternative and Complementary Medicine, 9(4), 461-465.

Norsworthy, K. L., & Khunankaew, O. (2004). Women of Burma speak out: Workshops to deconstruct gender-based violence and build sytems of peace and justice. Journal for Specialists in Group Work, 29(3), 259-283.

The Office of Global Health Affairs. (n.d.) Background on Potential Health Issues for Burmese Refugees by Office of Global Health Affairs. Retrieved November 12, 2007, from http://www.globalhealth.gov/refugee/burmese_refugees_health.doc

Queensland Government. (n.d.) Karen-Burmese Refugees: An orientation for heatlh workers and volunteers. Retrieved August 30, 2007 from http://www.health.qld.gov.au/multicultural/health_workers/kbrefugees1.pdf

Refugees from Burma: Their backgrounds and refugees experiences (2007). Retrieved February 19, 2008, from http://www.cal.org/co/pdffiles/refugeesfromburma.pdf (88 pages)

Refugees International. (June 2004). Stolen Futures: Stateless Children of Burmese Asylum Seekers. Retrieved August 29, 2007, from http://www.refugeesinternational.org/content/article/detail/3014/

Rhode Island Department of Health. (n.d.) Burmese Health Sheet. Retrieved August 27th, 2007 from http://www.health.state.ri.us/chew/refugee/burmese.pdf

Sarojini, Foong, M. S., Pin, C. C., Nge, T. T., et al. (July-September 2005). The expectations and experiences of Myanmar nursing aides working in an inpatient hospice in Singapore. Singapore Nursing Journal, 32(3), 44-49.

Schuftan, C., van der Veen, A., Baquet, V., & Winichagoon, P. (April 2004). Evaluation of echo-funded nutrition and food aid activities for Burmese refugees in Thailand. Retrieved August 29, 2007 from http://ec.europa.eu/echo/pdf_files/evaluation/2003/thailand_report.pdf

Skidmore, M. (2003). Darker than midnight: Fear, vulnerability, and terror making in urban Burma (Myanmar). American Ethnologist, 30(1), 5-21.

Skidmore, M. (2002). Menstrual madness: Women's health and well-being in urban Burma. Women Health, 35(4), 81-99.

Soe, S., & Mu, M. A. (n.d.) Myanmar (Union of Burma). In C. E. D'Avanzo (Ed.) Pocket guide to cultural health assessment (pp.545-551). St. Louis: Mosby.

Spiro, M. E. (1967). Burmese Supernaturalism. New Jersey: Prentice Hall.

Spiro, M. E. (1977). Kinship and Marriage in Burma- A Cultural and Psychodynamic Analysis. California: University of California Press.

Thailand Burma Border Consortium. Reports. Retrieved November 12, 2007, from http://www.tbbc.org/resources/resources.htm#reports

Thailand Burma Border Consortium. CCSDPT agency services to Burmese border camps: June 2006. Retrieved November 12, 2007, from http://www.reliefweb.int/rw/RWB.NSF/db900SID/CMAS-6U8JKE?OpenDocument

United States Agency for International Development (USAID). (December 2004). Thailand/Burma Health and Education Activities Review: Education Sector Final Report. Retrieved August 27, 2007, from http://pdf.usaid.gov/pdf_docs/PNADD360.pdf

University of Illinois Extension. (2007). African & Burmese Refugee Project. Retrieved November 12, 2007, from http://web.extension.uiuc.edu/state/discover.cfm?DiscoverID=27

University of North Caroline at Chapel Hill. (May 2007). People from Burma living in Chapel Hill and Carrboro. Retrieved August 30, 2007 from http://www.hsl.unc.edu/PHpapers/Orange_2007.pdf

University of Oregon, Yamada Language Center. (August 2006). Burmese Culture/Computer/Resources, Language. Retrieved November 29, 2007, from http://babel.uoregon.edu/yamada/guides/burmese.html

U.S. Department of State. (March 2007). Burma: Country reports on human rights practices 2006. Retrieved November 8, 2007, from http://www.state.gov/g/drl/rls/hrrpt/2006/78768.htm

Various Agencies. (2003). Burmese Border Guidelines. Retrieved August 29, 2007 from http://www.ibiblio.org/obl/docs3/PdF%20FINAL%20ISSUES/BURMESE%20BORDER%20GUIDELINES(english).pdf

Watanabe, Y. (n.d.) Library services for displaced people: Activities in Burmese refugee camps. Retrieved November 5, 2007, from https://lib.tut.ac.za/ifla/documents/yurikowatanabe.pdf

Weave. Women's Education for Advancement and Empowerment offers pamphlets about women's health education for displaced Burmese women. Retrieved March 18, 2008, from http://www.weave-women.org/pages/health.htm

Win, N., Lwin, A. A., Oo, M. M., Aye, K. S., et al. (2005). Hemoglobin E prevlance in malaria-endemic villages in Myanmar. Acta Medica Okayama, 59(2), 63-66.

World Health Organization. (2005). Country profile: Myanmar. Retrieved September 6, 2007 from http://www.who.int/tb/publications/global_report/2007/pdf/mmr.pdf

The World-Wide Web Virtual Library. (n.d.) Online Burma/Myanmar Library. Retrieved November 12, 2007, from http://www.ibiblio.org/obl/

Women's Commission for Refugee Women and Children. (April 2006). Thai-Burma Border Reproductive Health Assessment. Retrieved November 12, 2007, from http://www.rhrc.org/pdf/Thailand_Assessment_06.pdf