ReviewInternational journal of environmental research and public health2017
Refugee Policy Implications of U.S. Immigration Medical Screenings: A New Era of Inadmissibility on Health-Related Grounds.
Review in International journal of environmental research and public health, 2017. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 8 papers.
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- Implementing Federal Immigration Medical Examinations into a United States Student-Run Free Clinic.Journal of community health · 2025Article
- Morbidity among resettled refugees at arrival in Ontario, Canada (1994-2017): a controlled interrupted time series study examining the effect of the Immigration Refugee Protection Act, 2002.Journal of epidemiology and community health · 2025Article
- Conducting epigenetics research with refugees and asylum seekers: attending to the ethical challenges.Clinical epigenetics · 2021Review
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- Variations in neonatal mortality, infant mortality, preterm birth and birth weight in England and Wales according to ethnicity and maternal country or region of birth: an analysis of linked national data from 2006 to 2012.Journal of epidemiology and community health · 2020Article
- Calls for Stricter Legislation and Fear in the European Immigrant Community: Reflections of the Public Charge Debate Ongoing in the United States Comment on "A Crisis of Humanitarianism: Refugees at the Gates of Europe".International journal of health policy and management · 2020Article
- Factors Shaping the Lived Experience of Resettlement for Former Refugees in Regional Australia.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2020Article
- Refugee Health: An Ongoing Commitment and Challenge.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2018Article
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Abstract
Refugees frequently face extended delays in their efforts to enter the United States (U.S.) and those who are successful, in many cases, encounter overwhelming obstacles, inadequate resources, and a complex system of legal barriers. Travel restrictions based on equivocal health concerns and a drop in refugee admittance ceilings have complicated the situation. The authors retrieved and analyzed peer-reviewed journal articles, government agency press releases, media postings, epidemiologic factsheets, and relevant lay publications to critically assess U.S. policy regarding refugee resettlement based on health-related grounds. While refugees arguably exhibit an increased incidence of measles and tuberculosis compared with the U.S. population, the legitimacy of the medical examination will be undermined if other diseases that are endemic to refugee populations, yet currently deemed admissible, are used to restrict refugees from entering the U.S. This paper addressees the historic refugee policy of the U.S. and its consequent effect on the health of this vulnerable population. The needs of refugees should be carefully considered in the context of increased disease burden and the associated health care challenges of the country as a whole.
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