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Infectious Disease Reports, 2023 Background: Communicable diseases remain a significant global health issue. The increase in refugees and asylum seekers associated with conflicts may alter the burden of communicable diseases in host countries.
Haitham Taha, Jo Durham, Simon Reid
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Conflict and Health, 2022 Background Forced migrants fleeing conflict and violence face a high risk of mental health problems due to experiences before displacement, perilous journeys, and conditions in the new host societies.
Charlotta van Eggermont Arwidson +4 more
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Conceptualising misinformation in the context of asylum seekers
Information Processing and Management, 2020 This conceptual paper focuses on misinformation in the context of asylum seekers. We conducted a literature review on the concept of misinformation, which showed that a more nuanced understanding of information and misinformation is needed. To understand
Gunilla Widen, Hilda Ruokolainen
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Infiltrators or Asylum Seekers? Framing and Attitudes Toward Asylum Seekers in Israel [PDF]
Journal of Immigrant and Refugee Studies, 2015 This study asks whether framing asylum seekers in Israel as “infiltrators” posing threats to the country amplifies exclusion toward them. The term “infiltrators” associates asylum seekers with the anti-infiltration law passed in the 1950s to fight terrorists and dissociates asylum seekers from their unique position as holders of special rights.
Oshrat Hochman
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Prevalence of mental disorders in refugees and asylum seekers: a systematic review and meta-analysis
Global Mental Health, 2022 Background Studies have identified high rates of mental disorders in refugees, but most used self-report measures of psychiatric symptoms. In this study, we examined the percentages of adult refugees and asylum seekers meeting diagnostic criteria for ...
M. Patanè +6 more
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International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health, 2022 Background: Emerging evidence suggests that the COVID-19 pandemic is widening pre-pandemic health, social, and economic inequalities between refugees, migrants, and asylum seekers and the general population. This global scoping review examined the impact
Z. Mengesha +4 more
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Frontiers in Psychiatry, 2021 Background: Since the onset of the 2015 European refugee crisis, ~4. 46 million people have sought asylum in the European Union, with Germany logging the largest share of all asylum applications.
Vivien Hajak +3 more
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Psychotherapy and Psychosomatics, 2021 Introduction: Self-Help Plus (SH+) is a group-based psychological intervention developed by the World Health Organization for managing stress. Objective: To assess the effectiveness of SH+ in preventing mental disorders in refugees and asylum seekers in ...
M. Purgato +29 more
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Frontiers in Public Health, 2023 Refugees, asylum seekers, and migrants often do not end up in the places they expected. Because of the pandemic impacts, their exposure to COVID-19 may be increased as a result of crowded camps and detention centers.
Rabie Adel El Arab +17 more
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EClinicalMedicine, 2021 Background Migrants globally, including refugees and asylum seekers, have experienced adverse clinical and socioeconomic impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic. For approximately 56,000 refugees and asylum seekers in Reception and Identification Centers (RICs)
E. Kondilis +6 more
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