The health of recent migrants from resource-poor countries

Medicine

Volumn 38, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 60-65

  Eziefula, Chi ^a   Brown, Mike ^a  

^a HOSPITAL FOR TROPICAL DISEASES   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

HIV; illegal migrants; malaria; mental disease; migrants; parasitic worms; poverty; primary care; screening; tuberculosis

Indexed keywords

BCG VACCINE; CORTICOSTEROID; HEPATITIS B VACCINE;

CHEMOPROPHYLAXIS; COMMUNICATION SKILL; CULTURAL SENSITIVITY; DOCTOR PATIENT RELATION; EARLY DIAGNOSIS; EOSINOPHILIA; HEALTH CARE ACCESS; HEALTH CARE DISPARITY; HEALTH CARE NEED; HELMINTHIASIS; HEPATITIS B; HIGH RISK POPULATION; HUMAN; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS INFECTION; IMMIGRANT; MALARIA; MENTAL DISEASE; POINT OF CARE TESTING; PRENATAL CARE; PRENATAL SCREENING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; SEROPREVALENCE; STIGMA; TUBERCULOSIS; UNITED KINGDOM; VIRUS HEPATITIS;

EID: 72449131947     PISSN: 13573039     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.mpmed.2009.09.026     Document Type: Review

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