Refugee, Migrant and Ethnic Minority Health

• Format: eBook
• Language: English
• Published: MDPI - Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute 2019
• Subjects: Social interaction; access; access to care; acute stress; adolescent; Africa; aggression; AIDS; alcohol consumption; ambulance; applicants for international protection; asylum; asylum seeker; asylum seekers; autism; breastfeeding; care; CHB; Chinese; chronic disease; communicable diseases; complementary feeding; confidence; cost effectiveness; culture; depression; discrimination; disease prevention; disparities; doctor; early trauma; economic crisis; economic recession; education; Electronic Health Insurance Card; emergency care; emergency department; emergency medical service; Europe; European Union; European Union (EU); experiences; failed asylum seekers; family-oriented societies; fruit; Germany; GRADE; Greece; HBV; health; health care; health care professionals; health care provision; health survey; health systems; healthcare; healthcare system strengthening; help-seeking behavior; hepatitis C; HIV; IGRA; immigrant; immigrant mothers; immigrants; immigration; immunisation strategies; inequalities; infant; infection; infectious disease; infectious diseases; intercultural competence; involuntary treatment; Italy; knowledge; lifestyle behavior; linkage; LTBI; measles; medical care; medical service; mental health; Middle Eastern refugee adolescents; migrant; migrant health; migrant populations; migrants; migration; MMR vaccination; multidimensional intercultural training acculturation model (MITA); n/a; National Health System; negative automatic thoughts; North African; North Korean refugees; obesity; overweight; pain; pain perception; path analysis; physical activity; Polish; Portuguese; post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD); pregnancy; preparedness; prevalence; primary healthcare system; protective factor; psychiatric emergency services; psychiatric hospitalisation; psychiatric hospitalization; public health; reception center; refugee; refugee and migrant (R&M) health; refugee and migrant women; refugee crisis; refugee health; refugees; refugees women; religiosity; Rinkeby; risk factor; schistosomiasis/schistosoma; screening; screening/diagnosis; sexual and reproductive health; sexual health; sexual violence; smoking; Southeast Europe; stigma; strongyloidiasis/strongyloides; systematic review; Tensta; training; traumatic events; treatment; triage; tuberculosis; understanding of illness; vaccination; vaccine hesitancy; vegetable; viral hepatitis elimination; VPD; workplace violence; young women
• Online Access: Open Access: DOAB: description of the publication; Open Access: DOAB, download the publication
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (526 p.)
• ISBN: 9783039216444; 9783039216451; books978-3-03921-645-1
• Access: Open Access

International migration, particularly to Europe, has increased in the last few decades, making research on aspects of this phenomenon, including numbers, challenges, and successes, particularly vital. This Special Issue highlights this necessary and relevant area of research. It presents 37 articles including studies on diverse topics relating to the health of refugees and migrants. Most articles (28) present studies focusing on European host countries. The focus on Europe is justified if we take into consideration the increased number of refugees and migrants who have come to Europe in recent years. However, there are also articles which present studies from countries in other continents. The topics discussed in the Issue include healthcare utilization, infectious diseases, mother and child health, mental health, and chronic diseases. Finding from the included articles indicate that further development of guidelines and policies at both local and international levels is needed. Priorities must be set by encouraging and funding in-depth research that aims to evaluate the impact of existing policies and interventions. Such research will help us formulate recommendations for the development of strategies and approaches that improve and strengthen the integration of migrants and refugees into the host countries.