Linkage to Care Is Important and Necessary When Identifying Infections in Migrants

Migration is an important driver of population dynamics in Europe. Although migrants are generally healthy, subgroups of migrants are at increased risk of a range of infectious diseases. Early identification of infections is important as it prevents morbidity and mortality. However, identifying infe...

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Autores principales: Pareek, Manish, Noori, Teymur, Hargreaves, Sally, van den Muijsenbergh, Maria
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: MDPI 2018
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6069072/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/30037142
http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/ijerph15071550
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author Pareek, Manish
Noori, Teymur
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van den Muijsenbergh, Maria
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description Migration is an important driver of population dynamics in Europe. Although migrants are generally healthy, subgroups of migrants are at increased risk of a range of infectious diseases. Early identification of infections is important as it prevents morbidity and mortality. However, identifying infections needs to be supported by appropriate systems to link individuals to specialist care where they can receive further diagnostic tests and clinical management. In this commentary we will discuss the importance of linkage to care and how to minimise attrition in clinical pathways.
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spelling pubmed-60690722018-08-07 Linkage to Care Is Important and Necessary When Identifying Infections in Migrants Pareek, Manish Noori, Teymur Hargreaves, Sally van den Muijsenbergh, Maria Int J Environ Res Public Health Commentary Migration is an important driver of population dynamics in Europe. Although migrants are generally healthy, subgroups of migrants are at increased risk of a range of infectious diseases. Early identification of infections is important as it prevents morbidity and mortality. However, identifying infections needs to be supported by appropriate systems to link individuals to specialist care where they can receive further diagnostic tests and clinical management. In this commentary we will discuss the importance of linkage to care and how to minimise attrition in clinical pathways. MDPI 2018-07-22 2018-07 /pmc/articles/PMC6069072/ /pubmed/30037142 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/ijerph15071550 Text en © 2018 by the authors. Licensee MDPI, Basel, Switzerland. This article is an open access article distributed under the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY) license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/).
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Linkage to Care Is Important and Necessary When Identifying Infections in Migrants
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title_short Linkage to Care Is Important and Necessary When Identifying Infections in Migrants
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6069072/
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http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/ijerph15071550
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