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Immigrants, health, and the impact of COVID-19: A narrative review
While the COVID-19 pandemic has gravely challenged health systems globally, countries that host a large number of refugees are finding themselves even more burdened as providing preventive and curative services to refugees, and, migrants has proved to be a challenging task. The aim of this narrative...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10665605/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/37997587 http://dx.doi.org/10.12688/f1000research.130085.2 |
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description | While the COVID-19 pandemic has gravely challenged health systems globally, countries that host a large number of refugees are finding themselves even more burdened as providing preventive and curative services to refugees, and, migrants has proved to be a challenging task. The aim of this narrative review is to discuss the impact COVID-19 pandemic on immigrants, and seek to understand how COVID-19 affects provision of health services, access to health care and the socioeconomic situation. Like any other health challenge, COVID-19 has also left migrants susceptible to adverse outcomes, both directly and indirectly. Several factors limit their ability to avoid infections, access healthcare, and cope with socio-psychological impacts. In addition, undocumented immigrants or people living on short-term visit visas do not have full access to healthcare services in most countries. It is evident that COVID-19 has also influenced these workers leaving them jobless or receiving low wages or no pay, hence, this has hugely impacted the remittance and economic situation in their country. Extending access to healthcare to the entire immigrant population, irrespective of their legal status, is the cornerstone of an effective response to counter the COVID-19 pandemic. |
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spelling | pubmed-106656052023-11-20 Immigrants, health, and the impact of COVID-19: A narrative review Angawi, Khadijah F1000Res Review While the COVID-19 pandemic has gravely challenged health systems globally, countries that host a large number of refugees are finding themselves even more burdened as providing preventive and curative services to refugees, and, migrants has proved to be a challenging task. The aim of this narrative review is to discuss the impact COVID-19 pandemic on immigrants, and seek to understand how COVID-19 affects provision of health services, access to health care and the socioeconomic situation. Like any other health challenge, COVID-19 has also left migrants susceptible to adverse outcomes, both directly and indirectly. Several factors limit their ability to avoid infections, access healthcare, and cope with socio-psychological impacts. In addition, undocumented immigrants or people living on short-term visit visas do not have full access to healthcare services in most countries. It is evident that COVID-19 has also influenced these workers leaving them jobless or receiving low wages or no pay, hence, this has hugely impacted the remittance and economic situation in their country. Extending access to healthcare to the entire immigrant population, irrespective of their legal status, is the cornerstone of an effective response to counter the COVID-19 pandemic. F1000 Research Limited 2023-11-20 /pmc/articles/PMC10665605/ /pubmed/37997587 http://dx.doi.org/10.12688/f1000research.130085.2 Text en Copyright: © 2023 Angawi K https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution Licence, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. |
spellingShingle | Review Angawi, Khadijah Immigrants, health, and the impact of COVID-19: A narrative review |
title | Immigrants, health, and the impact of COVID-19: A narrative review |
title_full | Immigrants, health, and the impact of COVID-19: A narrative review |
title_fullStr | Immigrants, health, and the impact of COVID-19: A narrative review |
title_full_unstemmed | Immigrants, health, and the impact of COVID-19: A narrative review |
title_short | Immigrants, health, and the impact of COVID-19: A narrative review |
title_sort | immigrants, health, and the impact of covid-19: a narrative review |
topic | Review |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10665605/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/37997587 http://dx.doi.org/10.12688/f1000research.130085.2 |
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