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HomePublic health guidance on screening and vaccination for infectious diseases in newly arrived migrants within the EU/EEA
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Increased rates of migration to and within the European Union and European Economic Area (EU/EEA) in recent years has made the development of migration policy, including health policy, a priority for the region. A migrant is defined as any individual who lives in a country temporarily or permanently away from his or her usual place of residence for at least a year. Migrants do not generally pose a health threat to the host population. However, some subgroups of migrants, including refugees, asylum seekers, and irregular migrants are particularly vulnerable to infectious diseases and may have worse health outcomes than the host population. In a number of EU/EEA Member States, subgroups of migrant populations are disproportionately affected by infectious diseases such as tuberculosis, HIV, and hepatitis B and C. Consequently, screening and vaccination programmes may be of benefit for newly arrived migrants, i.e. those who have arrived in the EU/EEA within the past five years. The European health policy framework ‘Health 2020’ aims to ‘significantly improve the health and well-being of populations, reduce health inequalities, strengthen public health and ensure people-centred health systems that are universal, equitable, sustainable and of high quality’. ECDC has sought to support this aim in migrant health by developing evidence-based guidance on the prevention of infectious diseases among newly arrived migrants in the EU/EEA.
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- Corporate author(s): European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control (EU body or agency)
- Themes: Public health , Health policy
- Subject: disease prevention , health policy , health risk , infectious disease , migrant , right to health , user guide , vaccination
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| ISSN | ISBN 978-92-9498-280-3 | DOI 10.2900/154411 | Catalogue number TQ-04-18-919-EN-N |
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