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Hospitalizations of Ukrainian Migrants and Refugees in Poland in the Time of the Russia-Ukraine Conflict

Background: In the face of a sudden influx of several million migrants and war refugees from Ukraine to other European countries, knowledge about the health of Ukrainian citizens becomes increasingly important. The aim of the study is to identify the main health problems of hospitalized Ukrainian ci...

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Autores principales: Lewtak, Katarzyna, Kanecki, Krzysztof, Tyszko, Piotr, Goryński, Paweł, Kosińska, Irena, Poznańska, Anna, Rząd, Michał, Nitsch-Osuch, Aneta
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9603686/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/36293932
http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/ijerph192013350
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author Lewtak, Katarzyna
Kanecki, Krzysztof
Tyszko, Piotr
Goryński, Paweł
Kosińska, Irena
Poznańska, Anna
Rząd, Michał
Nitsch-Osuch, Aneta
author_facet Lewtak, Katarzyna
Kanecki, Krzysztof
Tyszko, Piotr
Goryński, Paweł
Kosińska, Irena
Poznańska, Anna
Rząd, Michał
Nitsch-Osuch, Aneta
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description Background: In the face of a sudden influx of several million migrants and war refugees from Ukraine to other European countries, knowledge about the health of Ukrainian citizens becomes increasingly important. The aim of the study is to identify the main health problems of hospitalized Ukrainian citizens residing in Poland in the period from 2014 to June 2022. Methods: This study is based on hospitalization data of Ukrainian patients in Poland taken from the Nationwide General Hospital Morbidity Study. Results: The study group covered 8591 hospitalization records. We observed two hospitalization peaks, one in patients aged 0–5 and the other one in those aged 20–35. After the official outbreak of the war, 2231 Ukrainian citizens were hospitalized in Poland. At this time, the most often reported principal reasons for the hospitalizations of adult women were diseases related to pregnancy, childbirth and the puerperium, whereas in groups of adult men diseases were related to injury, poisoning and certain other consequences of external causes, and in children and adolescents diseases were infectious and parasitic diseases. Conclusions: Our findings may have implications for healthcare policies and service provision to newly arrived migrants and war refugees in target European countries.
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spelling pubmed-96036862022-10-27 Hospitalizations of Ukrainian Migrants and Refugees in Poland in the Time of the Russia-Ukraine Conflict Lewtak, Katarzyna Kanecki, Krzysztof Tyszko, Piotr Goryński, Paweł Kosińska, Irena Poznańska, Anna Rząd, Michał Nitsch-Osuch, Aneta Int J Environ Res Public Health Article Background: In the face of a sudden influx of several million migrants and war refugees from Ukraine to other European countries, knowledge about the health of Ukrainian citizens becomes increasingly important. The aim of the study is to identify the main health problems of hospitalized Ukrainian citizens residing in Poland in the period from 2014 to June 2022. Methods: This study is based on hospitalization data of Ukrainian patients in Poland taken from the Nationwide General Hospital Morbidity Study. Results: The study group covered 8591 hospitalization records. We observed two hospitalization peaks, one in patients aged 0–5 and the other one in those aged 20–35. After the official outbreak of the war, 2231 Ukrainian citizens were hospitalized in Poland. At this time, the most often reported principal reasons for the hospitalizations of adult women were diseases related to pregnancy, childbirth and the puerperium, whereas in groups of adult men diseases were related to injury, poisoning and certain other consequences of external causes, and in children and adolescents diseases were infectious and parasitic diseases. Conclusions: Our findings may have implications for healthcare policies and service provision to newly arrived migrants and war refugees in target European countries. MDPI 2022-10-16 /pmc/articles/PMC9603686/ /pubmed/36293932 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/ijerph192013350 Text en © 2022 by the authors. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/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 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/).
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Lewtak, Katarzyna
Kanecki, Krzysztof
Tyszko, Piotr
Goryński, Paweł
Kosińska, Irena
Poznańska, Anna
Rząd, Michał
Nitsch-Osuch, Aneta
Hospitalizations of Ukrainian Migrants and Refugees in Poland in the Time of the Russia-Ukraine Conflict
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title_fullStr Hospitalizations of Ukrainian Migrants and Refugees in Poland in the Time of the Russia-Ukraine Conflict
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title_short Hospitalizations of Ukrainian Migrants and Refugees in Poland in the Time of the Russia-Ukraine Conflict
title_sort hospitalizations of ukrainian migrants and refugees in poland in the time of the russia-ukraine conflict
topic Article
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9603686/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/36293932
http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/ijerph192013350
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