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Prevention and treatment of infectious diseases in migrants in Europe in the era of universal health coverage.

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posted on 2022-11-15, 15:03 authored by Rebecca F Baggaley, Dominik Zenner, Paul Bird, Sally Hargreaves, Chris Griffiths, Teymur Noori, Jon S Friedland, Laura B Nellums, Manish Pareek
Some subpopulations of migrants to Europe are generally healthier than the population of the country of settlement, but are at increased risk of key infectious diseases, including tuberculosis, HIV, and viral hepatitis, as well as under- immunisation. Infection screening programmes across Europe work in disease silos with a focus on individual diseases at the time of arrival. We argue that European health-care practitioners and policy makers would benefit from developing a framework of universal health care for migrants, which proactively offers early testing and vaccinations by delivering multi-disease testing and catch-up vaccination programmes integrated within existing health systems. Such interventions should be codeveloped with migrant populations to overcome barriers faced in accessing services. Aligning policies with the European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control guidance for health care for migrants, community-based preventive health-care programmes should be delivered as part of universal health care. However, effective implementation needs appropriate funding, and to be underpinned by high-quality evidence.

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Author affiliation

Department of Respiratory Sciences, University of Leicester

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  • VoR (Version of Record)

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The Lancet. Public health

Volume

7

Issue

10

Pagination

e876 - e884

Publisher

Elsevier BV

issn

2468-2667

eissn

2468-2667

Copyright date

2022

Available date

2022-11-15

Spatial coverage

England

Language

eng

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