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The genes road: impact of migration on newborn screening and health amid the COVID-19 pandemic in the Eastern Mediterranean region

Nearly two-thirds of migrants residing in camps in Europe are women and children. Many of these children, being born on the way without essential newborns screening, are at some point admitted to pediatric wards in asylum countries. With hospitals overwhelmed with COVID-19 cases, taking appropriate...

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Autores principales: Aborode, Abdullahi Tunde, Tsagkaris, Christos, Oyeyemi, Ajagbe Abayomi, Akanji, Onigbinde Oluwanisola, Essar, Mohammad Yasir, Ahmad, Shoaib, Khawaja, Uzzam Ahmed, Cruz-Martins, Natália, Batiha, Gaber El-Saber
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Publicado: Springer Berlin Heidelberg 2021
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8352145/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34374008
http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s11356-021-15848-5
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author Aborode, Abdullahi Tunde
Tsagkaris, Christos
Oyeyemi, Ajagbe Abayomi
Akanji, Onigbinde Oluwanisola
Essar, Mohammad Yasir
Ahmad, Shoaib
Khawaja, Uzzam Ahmed
Cruz-Martins, Natália
Batiha, Gaber El-Saber
author_facet Aborode, Abdullahi Tunde
Tsagkaris, Christos
Oyeyemi, Ajagbe Abayomi
Akanji, Onigbinde Oluwanisola
Essar, Mohammad Yasir
Ahmad, Shoaib
Khawaja, Uzzam Ahmed
Cruz-Martins, Natália
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description Nearly two-thirds of migrants residing in camps in Europe are women and children. Many of these children, being born on the way without essential newborns screening, are at some point admitted to pediatric wards in asylum countries. With hospitals overwhelmed with COVID-19 cases, taking appropriate care of newborns becomes a considerable burden. In this frame, prevention, in the form of adequate newborn screening, emerges as a better and more feasible strategy than healing.
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spelling pubmed-83521452021-08-10 The genes road: impact of migration on newborn screening and health amid the COVID-19 pandemic in the Eastern Mediterranean region Aborode, Abdullahi Tunde Tsagkaris, Christos Oyeyemi, Ajagbe Abayomi Akanji, Onigbinde Oluwanisola Essar, Mohammad Yasir Ahmad, Shoaib Khawaja, Uzzam Ahmed Cruz-Martins, Natália Batiha, Gaber El-Saber Environ Sci Pollut Res Int Trend Editorial Nearly two-thirds of migrants residing in camps in Europe are women and children. Many of these children, being born on the way without essential newborns screening, are at some point admitted to pediatric wards in asylum countries. With hospitals overwhelmed with COVID-19 cases, taking appropriate care of newborns becomes a considerable burden. In this frame, prevention, in the form of adequate newborn screening, emerges as a better and more feasible strategy than healing. Springer Berlin Heidelberg 2021-08-09 2021 /pmc/articles/PMC8352145/ /pubmed/34374008 http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s11356-021-15848-5 Text en © The Author(s), under exclusive licence to Springer-Verlag GmbH Germany, part of Springer Nature 2021 This article is made available via the PMC Open Access Subset for unrestricted research re-use and secondary analysis in any form or by any means with acknowledgement of the original source. These permissions are granted for the duration of the World Health Organization (WHO) declaration of COVID-19 as a global pandemic.
spellingShingle Trend Editorial
Aborode, Abdullahi Tunde
Tsagkaris, Christos
Oyeyemi, Ajagbe Abayomi
Akanji, Onigbinde Oluwanisola
Essar, Mohammad Yasir
Ahmad, Shoaib
Khawaja, Uzzam Ahmed
Cruz-Martins, Natália
Batiha, Gaber El-Saber
The genes road: impact of migration on newborn screening and health amid the COVID-19 pandemic in the Eastern Mediterranean region
title The genes road: impact of migration on newborn screening and health amid the COVID-19 pandemic in the Eastern Mediterranean region
title_full The genes road: impact of migration on newborn screening and health amid the COVID-19 pandemic in the Eastern Mediterranean region
title_fullStr The genes road: impact of migration on newborn screening and health amid the COVID-19 pandemic in the Eastern Mediterranean region
title_full_unstemmed The genes road: impact of migration on newborn screening and health amid the COVID-19 pandemic in the Eastern Mediterranean region
title_short The genes road: impact of migration on newborn screening and health amid the COVID-19 pandemic in the Eastern Mediterranean region
title_sort genes road: impact of migration on newborn screening and health amid the covid-19 pandemic in the eastern mediterranean region
topic Trend Editorial
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8352145/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34374008
http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s11356-021-15848-5
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