How do economic crises affect migrants risk of infectious disease? A systematic-narrative review

European Journal of Public Health

Volumn 25, Issue 6, 2015, Pages 937-944

  Kentikelenis, Alexander ^a   Karanikolos, Marina ^b   Williams, Gemma ^c   Mladovsky, Philipa ^c   King, Lawrence ^a   Pharris, Anastasia ^d   Suk, Jonathan E ^d   Hatzakis, Angelos ^e   McKee, Martin ^b   Noori, Teymur ^d   Stuckler, David ^f  

^a KING'S COLLEGE   (United Kingdom)

^b LONDON SCHOOL OF HYGIENE AND TROPICAL MEDICINE   (United Kingdom)

^c LONDON SCHOOL OF ECONOMICS   (United Kingdom)

^d EUROPEAN CENTRE FOR DISEASE PREVENTION AND CONTROL ECDC   (Sweden)

^e UNIVERSITY OF ATHENS MEDICAL SCHOOL   (Greece)

^f UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMMUNICABLE DISEASE; DRUG DEPENDENCE; ECONOMIC RECESSION; ECONOMICS; EPIDEMIOLOGY; ETHNOLOGY; EUROPE; HEALTH CARE DISPARITY; HEPATITIS; HUMAN; INCIDENCE; MIGRATION; PREVALENCE; PREVENTIVE HEALTH SERVICE; RISK FACTOR; SEXUALLY TRANSMITTED DISEASE; SOCIOECONOMICS; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA; TRANSMISSION; TUBERCULOSIS;

COMMUNICABLE DISEASES; ECONOMIC RECESSION; EUROPE; HEALTHCARE DISPARITIES; HEPATITIS; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; PREVALENCE; PREVENTIVE HEALTH SERVICES; RISK FACTORS; SEXUALLY TRANSMITTED DISEASES; SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS; SUBSTANCE-RELATED DISORDERS; TRANSIENTS AND MIGRANTS; TUBERCULOSIS;

EID: 84955721458     PISSN: 11011262     EISSN: 1464360X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/eurpub/ckv151     Document Type: Article

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