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Linkage to Care Is Important and Necessary When Identifying Infections in Migrants.

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posted on 2019-09-24, 12:50 authored by Manish Pareek, Teymur Noori, Sally Hargreaves, Maria Van den Muijsenbergh
Migration is an important driver of population dynamics in Europe. Although migrants are generally healthy, subgroups of migrants are at increased risk of a range of infectious diseases. Early identification of infections is important as it prevents morbidity and mortality. However, identifying infections needs to be supported by appropriate systems to link individuals to specialist care where they can receive further diagnostic tests and clinical management. In this commentary we will discuss the importance of linkage to care and how to minimise attrition in clinical pathways.

Funding

This work is supported by the European Health Group and European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control (ECDC): FWC No ECDC/2015/016, Specific Contract No 1 ECD.5748. MP is supported by the National Institute for Health Research (NIHR Post-Doctoral Fellowship, Manish Pareek, PDF-2015-08-102). The views expressed in this publication are those of the author(s) and not necessarily those of the NHS, the National Institute for Health Research or the Department of Health. SH is funded by the Imperial NIHR Biomedical Research Centre, the Wellcome Trust (Grant number 209993/Z/17/Z), and the European Society for Clinical Microbiology and Infectious Diseases (ESCMID) through an ESCMID Study Group for Infections in Travellers and Migrants (ESGITM) research grant.

History

Citation

International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health, 2018, 15 (7)

Author affiliation

/Organisation/COLLEGE OF LIFE SCIENCES/School of Medicine/Department of Infection, Immunity and Inflammation

Version

  • VoR (Version of Record)

Published in

International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health

Publisher

MDPI

eissn

1660-4601

Acceptance date

2018-07-17

Copyright date

2018

Available date

2019-09-24

Publisher version

https://www.mdpi.com/1660-4601/15/7/1550

Language

en