ReviewInternational journal of environmental research and public health2020
Roma Health: An Overview of Communicable Diseases in Eastern and Central Europe.
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- Mental illness and suicidality among Roma and traveller communities in the UK, Ireland, and other countries: a systematic review.BMC psychiatry · 2025Pooled it
- Caring, pragmatic and discriminatory: how private paediatric outpatient providers normalise unequal care for Roma-ethnographic findings from affluent Slovakia.International journal for equity in health · 2026Article
- Health Care and Access to Quality Social-Health Services of the Roma and Sinti: A Scoping Review.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2025Article
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- Assessing disparities in health and living conditions: a comparative study of Hungarian-speaking Roma and non-Roma women across Hungary, Romania, and Slovakia.Frontiers in public health · 2024Article
- Assessing the Level of Knowledge and Experience Regarding Cervical Cancer Prevention and Screening among Roma Women in Romania.Medicina (Kaunas, Lithuania) · 2023Article
- Assessment of health status and cardiovascular risk factors in a Roma population sample from South Bulgaria.Central European journal of public health · 2023Article
- Genetic Determinants of Leisure-Time Physical Activity in the Hungarian General and Roma Populations.International journal of molecular sciences · 2023Article
- Laboratory Findings and Clinical Outcomes of ICU-admitted COVID-19 Patients: A Retrospective Assessment of Particularities Identified among Romanian Minorities.Journal of personalized medicine · 2023Article
- Residence in segregated settlements (colonies) rather than Roma identity increases the risk of unfavourable mental health in Hungarian adults.Frontiers in public health · 2023Article
- Development and evaluation of an intervention to promote the use of eyeglasses among Romani families in Bulgaria.Frontiers in public health · 2023Article
- A Retrospective Assessment of Laboratory Findings and Cytokine Markers in Severe SARS-CoV-2 Infection among Patients of Roma Population.Journal of clinical medicine · 2022Article
- Desirable but not feasible: Measures and interventions to promote early childhood health and development in marginalized Roma communities in Slovakia.Frontiers in public health · 2022Article
- Raising employment and quality of life among people with disadvantages - results of a Hungarian project.BMC public health · 2021Article
- Parasitic zoonoses in the Roma population.Germs · 2021Review
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Abstract
The Roma are Europe's largest minority. They are also one of its most disadvantaged, with low levels of education and health and high levels of poverty. Research on Roma health often reveals higher burdens of disease in the communities studied. This paper aims to review the literature on communicable diseases among Roma across Eastern and Central Europe. A PubMed search was carried out for communicable diseases among Roma in these parts of Europe, specifically in Romania, Bulgaria, Hungary, Serbia, Slovakia, the Czech Republic and North Macedonia. The papers were then screened for relevance and utility. Nineteen papers were selected for review; most of them from Slovakia. Roma continue to have a higher prevalence of communicable diseases and are at higher risk of infection than the majority populations of the countries they live in. Roma children in particular have a particularly high prevalence of parasitic disease. However, these differences in disease prevalence are not present across all diseases and all populations. For example, when Roma are compared to non-Roma living in close proximity to them, these differences are often no longer significant.
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