WHO’s global action plan to promote the health of refugees and migrants

Pant, Stuti; Eder, B; Vračar, Ana; Mosca, Davide; Orcutt, Miriam

doi:10.1136/bmj.l4806

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“…Paying attention to migrant and refugee populations’ health is a very important issue [23] . At the 72 nd World Health Assembly in 2019, the WHO prioritized the health of refugee and migrant groups and recognized that access to health care services, including vaccinations, is more difficult for such people on the move [24] , [25] . In addition, human displacement is often associated with transmission of infectious diseases [26] .…”

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Prevalence of COVID-19 vaccine acceptance among migrant and refugee groups: A systematic review and meta-analysis

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Prevalence of COVID-19 vaccine acceptance among migrant and refugee groups: A systematic review and meta-analysis

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“…The WHO is actively promoting the health of refugees and migrants [ 45 ]. Leprosy should be diagnosed at the initial stage when the skin lesions are the predominant manifestations, in order to prevent evolution to the neurological stage.…”

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Leprosy in Refugees and Migrants in Italy and a Literature Review of Cases Reported in Europe between 2009 and 2018

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Leprosy is a chronic neglected infectious disease that affects over 200,000 people each year and causes disabilities in more than four million people in Asia, Africa, and Latin America. The disease can appear with a wide spectrum of clinical forms, and therefore the clinical suspicion is often difficult. Refugees and migrants from endemic countries affected by leprosy can remain undiagnosed in Europe due to the unpreparedness of clinicians. We retrospectively describe the characteristics of 55 refugees/migrants with a diagnosis of leprosy established in Italy from 2009 to 2018. Continents of origin were Africa (42%), Asia (40%), and South and Central America (18%). The symptoms reported were skin lesions (91%), neuropathy (71%), edema (7%), eye involvement (6%), fever (6%), arthritis (4%), and lymphadenopathy (4%). Seven patients (13%) had irreversible complications. Overall, 35% were relapses and 66% multibacillary leprosy. Furthermore, we conducted a review of 17 case reports or case series and five nationwide reports, published in the same decade, describing 280 migrant patients with leprosy in Europe. In Europe, leprosy is a rare chronic infectious disease, but it has not completely disappeared. Diagnosis and treatment of leprosy in refugees and migrants from endemic countries are a challenge. European guidelines for this neglected disease in this high-risk population would be beneficial.

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“…Its primary goal is to achieve universal health coverage (UHC) through the full and equal admission of immigrants to healthcare systems. 1 , 2 A wide range of global literature indicates that there is a connection between immigration, health and disease and that immigration affects the epidemiology of diseases globally and especially in recipient countries. 3 However, when accessing essential healthcare services, immigrants face many barriers, including differences in language, culture, irregular immigration identities and exclusionary healthcare policies and public services.…”

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Mobility-related inequality in healthcare utilization between floating and native populations and its influencing factors: evidence from China

Tang

Liu

2021

International Health

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Our goal was to examine inequality in healthcare utilization and the factors that contribute to inequality between China's floating and native populations. Based on the China Labor-force Dynamics Surveys from 2014 to 2018, which used three rounds of data, we utilized a panel probit model that included fixed effects for time and province to estimate the probability of healthcare utilization for floating and native populations. In addition, we calculated the degree of inequality in healthcare utilization by using the method of mobility-related inequality and a decomposition approach was used to explain the contribution of each factor to the inequality. The floating population utilized healthcare at a lower rate, with a 10.5% probability of visiting a hospital and a 20.9% probability of receiving hospitalized treatment. The concentration index of mobility-related inequality in healthcare utilization shows a negative coefficient of −0.137 for hospital visits and −0.356 for hospitalized treatment. Contribution decomposition shows that self-assessed health, job category and household registration account for the largest contribution to the inequality in hospital visits, contributing −0.038, 0.021 and −0.017, respectively. Age, household registration and insurance account for the largest contribution to the inequality in hospitalized treatment, contributing −0.053, 0.024 and −0.023, respectively. The floating population was less likely to use health services and faced an inequality in treatment compared with the native population.

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WHO’s global action plan to promote the health of refugees and migrants

Abstract: Responses to migration must remain firmly rooted in social justice

Cited by 6 publications

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Prevalence of COVID-19 vaccine acceptance among migrant and refugee groups: A systematic review and meta-analysis

Prevalence of COVID-19 vaccine acceptance among migrant and refugee groups: A systematic review and meta-analysis

Leprosy in Refugees and Migrants in Italy and a Literature Review of Cases Reported in Europe between 2009 and 2018

Mobility-related inequality in healthcare utilization between floating and native populations and its influencing factors: evidence from China

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