ReviewInfectious disease reports2023
Communicable Diseases Prevalence among Refugees and Asylum Seekers: Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis.
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20 citing papers in PubMed, 2 syntheses or guidelines pooled it, 30 citations in OpenAlex.
- Interventions to Improve Health Among Refugees in the United States: A Systematic Review.Journal of community health · 2025Pooled it
- Impacts of armed conflicts on tuberculosis burden and treatment outcomes: a systematic review.BMJ open · 2024Pooled it
- Acute rheumatic fever and rheumatic heart disease in Latin America: a contemporary review of epidemiology.Lancet regional health. Americas · 2026Review
- The Cascade of Care for Infectious Diseases in Newly Arrived Refugees.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2026Article
- Advancing health research practices among forcibly displaced populations: A multidisciplinary stakeholder workshop.Health research policy and systems · 2026Article
- Addressing mental health care needs of vulnerable migrants by public psychiatry in France: the CAPSYS clinic.Frontiers in psychiatry · 2026Article
- Hand hygiene among cleaning staff in acute care hospitals: a scoping review.Frontiers in public health · 2026Article
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- A Service Evaluation of Migrants' Experiences of Accessing Healthcare in an Infectious Diseases Clinic in Ireland.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2025Article
- "The Culturally and Linguistically Diverse Community Is Not Just Minoritised But Ignored": Engaging Culturally and Linguistically Diverse Communities in Australia With Blood-Borne Viruses and Sexually Transmissible Infections Healthcare.Health expectations : an international journal of public participation in health care and health policy · 2025Article
- Improving adherence to CDC public health guidance for screening newly arrived refugee children through clinical decision support implementation: a primary care-based quality improvement study.BMJ open quality · 2025Article
- Addressing the Health Needs of Refugees and Migrants in Türkiye: A Literature Review.Health science reports · 2025Article
- Infectious disease research in forcibly displaced populations: A systematic review in low- and middle-income host countries.Journal of migration and health · 2025Review
- Health of refugee children upon arrival in high-income countries: A scoping review.Journal of migration and health · 2025Review
- Progressive Thoracolumbar Tuberculosis in a Young Male: Diagnostic, Therapeutic, and Surgical Insights.Infectious disease reports · 2024Article
- Infectious eye disease in the 21st century-an overview.Eye (London, England) · 2024Review
- Asylum seekers and the role of the acute care physician.Journal of the American College of Emergency Physicians open · 2024Review
- Community treatment of latent tuberculosis in child and adult refugee populations: outcomes and successes.Frontiers in public health · 2023Article
- The unmet surgical needs of global refugee populations: A perspective review.SAGE open medicine · 2023Review
- Intersecting Factors Impacting the Health and Wellbeing of a Resettled Yazidi Refugee Community: A Qualitative Study.Inquiry : a journal of medical care organization, provision and financingArticle
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3 authors at 2 institutions in 1 country.
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Abstract
backgroundCommunicable diseases remain a significant global health issue. The increase in refugees and asylum seekers associated with conflicts may alter the burden of communicable diseases in host countries. We conducted a systematic review of the prevalence of TB, HBC, HCV, and HIV among refugees and asylum seekers by regions of asylum and origin.
methodsFour electronic databases were searched from initiation to the 25 December 2022. Prevalence estimates were pooled into a random-effect model and were stratified by the region of origin and asylum. Meta-analysis was conducted to explore the heterogeneity of the included studies.
resultsThe most-reported asylum region was The Americas, represented by the United States of America. Asia and the Eastern Mediterranean was the region of the most-reported origin. The highest reported prevalence of active TB and HIV was among African refugees and asylum seekers. The highest reported prevalence of latent TB, HBV and HCV was among Asian and Eastern Mediterranean refugees and asylum seekers. High heterogeneity was found regardless of the communicable disease type or stratification.
conclusionThis review provided insights about refugees' and asylum seekers' status around the world and attempted to connect refugees' and asylum seekers' distribution and the burden of communicable diseases.
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