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Public health crises and Ukrainian refugees
Conflicts are inevitable, and so are refugees. Due to conflicts in Ukraine, the global refugee population has reached new highs. As people continue to flee Ukraine amid the ongoing pandemic in droves, their exposure to COVID-19 and infectious diseases that are common among the refugee population, su...
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2022
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9758613/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/35550853 http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.bbi.2022.05.004 |
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author | Su, Zhaohui McDonnell, Dean Cheshmehzangi, Ali Ahmad, Junaid Šegalo, Sabina Pereira da Veiga, Claudimar Xiang, Yu-Tao |
author_facet | Su, Zhaohui McDonnell, Dean Cheshmehzangi, Ali Ahmad, Junaid Šegalo, Sabina Pereira da Veiga, Claudimar Xiang, Yu-Tao |
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description | Conflicts are inevitable, and so are refugees. Due to conflicts in Ukraine, the global refugee population has reached new highs. As people continue to flee Ukraine amid the ongoing pandemic in droves, their exposure to COVID-19 and infectious diseases that are common among the refugee population, such as tuberculosis, is on the rise as well. Also factoring in the fact that Ukraine has a large population living with communicable diseases like HIV and hepatitis C, along with other non-communicable conditions like diabetes and cancer, there is a pronounced need to protect these refugees and local residents from potential public health crises. In this paper, we investigate the challenges that health and government officials face in addressing refugees’ health needs and preferences. Furthermore, we discuss the imperative to provide timely and effective health services to refugees, such as psychoneuroimmunology-based interventions that could help address refugees’ multifactorial and multifaceted health needs and requirements. While conflicts are inevitable, public health crises are not. In light of the renewed imperative to safeguard shared humanity and solidify global solidarity, collaborative actions are needed to ensure fair, kind, and true public health environments are available to refugees of the current conflict and beyond. |
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spelling | pubmed-97586132022-12-19 Public health crises and Ukrainian refugees Su, Zhaohui McDonnell, Dean Cheshmehzangi, Ali Ahmad, Junaid Šegalo, Sabina Pereira da Veiga, Claudimar Xiang, Yu-Tao Brain Behav Immun Viewpoint Conflicts are inevitable, and so are refugees. Due to conflicts in Ukraine, the global refugee population has reached new highs. As people continue to flee Ukraine amid the ongoing pandemic in droves, their exposure to COVID-19 and infectious diseases that are common among the refugee population, such as tuberculosis, is on the rise as well. Also factoring in the fact that Ukraine has a large population living with communicable diseases like HIV and hepatitis C, along with other non-communicable conditions like diabetes and cancer, there is a pronounced need to protect these refugees and local residents from potential public health crises. In this paper, we investigate the challenges that health and government officials face in addressing refugees’ health needs and preferences. Furthermore, we discuss the imperative to provide timely and effective health services to refugees, such as psychoneuroimmunology-based interventions that could help address refugees’ multifactorial and multifaceted health needs and requirements. While conflicts are inevitable, public health crises are not. In light of the renewed imperative to safeguard shared humanity and solidify global solidarity, collaborative actions are needed to ensure fair, kind, and true public health environments are available to refugees of the current conflict and beyond. Elsevier Inc. 2022-07 2022-05-10 /pmc/articles/PMC9758613/ /pubmed/35550853 http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.bbi.2022.05.004 Text en © 2022 Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved. Since January 2020 Elsevier has created a COVID-19 resource centre with free information in English and Mandarin on the novel coronavirus COVID-19. The COVID-19 resource centre is hosted on Elsevier Connect, the company's public news and information website. Elsevier hereby grants permission to make all its COVID-19-related research that is available on the COVID-19 resource centre - including this research content - immediately available in PubMed Central and other publicly funded repositories, such as the WHO COVID database with rights for unrestricted research re-use and analyses in any form or by any means with acknowledgement of the original source. These permissions are granted for free by Elsevier for as long as the COVID-19 resource centre remains active. |
spellingShingle | Viewpoint Su, Zhaohui McDonnell, Dean Cheshmehzangi, Ali Ahmad, Junaid Šegalo, Sabina Pereira da Veiga, Claudimar Xiang, Yu-Tao Public health crises and Ukrainian refugees |
title | Public health crises and Ukrainian refugees |
title_full | Public health crises and Ukrainian refugees |
title_fullStr | Public health crises and Ukrainian refugees |
title_full_unstemmed | Public health crises and Ukrainian refugees |
title_short | Public health crises and Ukrainian refugees |
title_sort | public health crises and ukrainian refugees |
topic | Viewpoint |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9758613/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/35550853 http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.bbi.2022.05.004 |
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