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

Baggaley, RF; Zenner, D; Bird, P; Hargreaves, S; Griffiths, C; Noori, T; Friedland, JS; Nellums, LB; Pareek, M (2022) Prevention and treatment of infectious diseases in migrants in Europe in the era of universal health coverage. Lancet Public Health, 7 (10). e876-e884. ISSN 2468-2667 https://doi.org/10.1016/S2468-2667(22)00174-8
SGUL Authors: Friedland, Jonathan Samuel

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Abstract

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.

Item Type: Article
Additional Information: Copyright © 2022 The Author(s). Published by Elsevier Ltd. This is an Open Access article under the CC BY 4.0 license.
SGUL Research Institute / Research Centre: Academic Structure > Infection and Immunity Research Institute (INII)
Journal or Publication Title: Lancet Public Health
ISSN: 2468-2667
Language: eng
Dates:
DateEvent
28 September 2022Published
26 August 2022Published Online
4 July 2022Accepted
Publisher License: Creative Commons: Attribution 4.0
Projects:
Project IDFunderFunder ID
204801/Z/16/ZWellcome Trusthttp://dx.doi.org/10.13039/100004440
NIHR300072National Institute for Health Researchhttp://dx.doi.org/10.13039/501100000272
SBF005\1111Academy of Medical Scienceshttp://dx.doi.org/10.13039/501100000691
PubMed ID: 36037808
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URI: https://openaccess.sgul.ac.uk/id/eprint/114845
Publisher's version: https://doi.org/10.1016/S2468-2667(22)00174-8

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