ArticleThe American journal of tropical medicine and hygiene2018
Impact of Enhanced Health Interventions for United States-Bound Refugees: Evaluating Best Practices in Migration Health.
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- Prevalence of hepatitis B virus amongst refugees, asylum seekers and internally displaced persons in low- and middle-income countries: A systematic review.Journal of viral hepatitis · 2023Pooled it
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- Factors associated with diagnostic delay and prognosis in hospitalized patients with strongyloidiasis in Okinawa, Japan.PLoS neglected tropical diseases · 2025Article
- Surgery on the Road to the Land of Promise-Ιmpact of the Refugee Crisis on the Greek Healthcare System: Results from a Surgical Department of a Tertiary Hospital.Healthcare (Basel, Switzerland) · 2025Article
- Prevention, testing, and treatment interventions for hepatitis B and C in refugee populations: results of a scoping review.BMC infectious diseases · 2023Article
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- Strongyloides stercoralis infection causing reversible chronic urticaria with histologic findings of leukocytoclastic vasculitis.JAAD case reports · 2022Article
- Feasibility, acceptability, and effectiveness of non-pharmaceutical interventions against infectious diseases among crisis-affected populations: a scoping review.Infectious diseases of poverty · 2022Article
- Disease Surveillance Among U.S.-Bound Immigrants and Refugees - Electronic Disease Notification System, United States, 2014-2019.Morbidity and mortality weekly report. Surveillance summaries (Washington, D.C. : 2002) · 2022Article
- [Updated recommendations on the treatment of infectious diseases in refugees in childhood and adolescence in Germany (situation as of 30 March 2022), registered as S1 guidelines (AWMF-Register Nr. 048-017)].Monatsschrift Kinderheilkunde : Organ der Deutschen Gesellschaft fur Kinderheilkunde · 2022Review
- [Care of infectious diseases in underage refugees exemplified by Ukraine].Monatsschrift Kinderheilkunde : Organ der Deutschen Gesellschaft fur Kinderheilkunde · 2022Review
- Severe alcoholic hepatitis: Jumping from the frying pan into the fire.United European gastroenterology journal · 2021Article
- Fatal Multiorgan Failure Syndrome in aCase reports in critical care · 2021Article
- Impact of Community Treatment With Ivermectin for the Control of Scabies on the Prevalence of Antibodies to Strongyloides stercoralis in Children.Clinical infectious diseases : an official publication of the Infectious Diseases Society of America · 2020Article
- Infectious disease outbreaks among forcibly displaced persons: an analysis of ProMED reports 1996-2016.Conflict and health · 2020Article
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- Migration Health: Highlights from Inaugural International Society of Travel Medicine (ISTM) Conference on Migration Health.Current infectious disease reports · 2019Review
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Abstract
With an unprecedented number of displaced persons worldwide, strategies for improving the health of migrating populations are critical. United States-bound refugees undergo a required overseas medical examination to identify inadmissible conditions (e.g., tuberculosis) 2-6 months before resettlement, but it is limited in scope and may miss important, preventable infectious, chronic, or nutritional causes of morbidity. We sought to evaluate the feasibility and health impact of diagnosis and management of such conditions before travel. We offered voluntary testing for intestinal parasites, anemia, and hepatitis B virus infection, to U.S.-bound refugees from three Thailand-Burma border camps. Treatment and preventive measures (e.g., anemia and parasite treatment, vaccination) were initiated before resettlement. United States refugee health partners received overseas results and provided post-arrival medical examination findings. During July 9, 2012 to November 29, 2013, 2,004 refugees aged 0.5-89 years enrolled. Among 463 participants screened for seven intestinal parasites overseas and after arrival, helminthic infections decreased from 67% to 12%. Among 118 with positive
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