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Precarity, agency and trust: Vaccination decision-making in the context of the UK asylum system

SSM: Qualitative Research in Health
Background: Individuals living in initial asylum accommodation are at increased risk of vaccine-preventable disease, yet confidence in vaccination may be low in these settings.
Anna Deal, Maha Salloum, Sally E. Hayward, Alison F. Crawshaw, Felicity Knights, Jessica Carter, Isra Al-Sharabi, Reem Yahia, Stephanie Fisher, Beatriz Morais, Oumnia Bouaddi, Lucy Jones, Anna Miller, Sandra Mounier-Jack, Sally Hargreaves   +14 more
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Reasons for admission in asylum-seeking and non-asylum-seeking patients in a paediatric tertiary care centre

Swiss Medical Weekly, 2020
BACKGROUND In the last decade an increasing number of asylum-seeking children arrived in Europe and local healthcare systems have been challenged to adapt to their health needs. The aim of this study was to compare the spectrum of disease and
Myriam Gmünder, Julia Brandenberger, Sina Buser, Christian Pohl, Nicole Ritz   +4 more
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A case study of partnership in practice: challenges and insights in the development of an academic-community coalition “The Migrant Health Community Research Network”

Research Involvement and Engagement
Background Participatory research (PR) approaches are increasingly prioritised globally, particularly in the UK, where many funders have emphasised meaningful collaboration with those with lived experience to improve health research relevance ...
Jessica Carter, Felicity Knights, Yusuf Ciftci, Kathryn Mackey, Eltayeb Hassan, Ada Jusic, Isra Al-Sharabi, Anna Deal, Nuria Sanchez Clemente, Alison Crawshaw, Sally E. Hayward, Darlington Faijue, Nathaniel Aspray, Natalie Elkhier, Philippa Harris, Rosita Chia-Yin Lin, Beatriz Morais, Sarah Tizzard, Oumnia Bouaddi, Farah Seedat, Sally Hargreaves   +20 more
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Migrant and Non-migrant Views on Immigration in Europe

European Journal of Population
Abstract Attitudes toward immigration are usually investigated from the non-migrant residents’ perspective. Much less is known about how perceptions of immigration policy and immigrants vary across immigration background lines, especially in the wider European context, and whether migrants’ attitudes toward immigration are affected by
Michaela Šedovič, Lenka Dražanová
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Health Catch-UP!: a realist evaluation of an innovative multi-disease screening and vaccination tool in UK primary care for at-risk migrant patients

BMC Medicine
Background Migrants to the UK face disproportionate risk of infections, non-communicable diseases, and under-immunisation compounded by healthcare access barriers.
Jessica Carter, Lucy P. Goldsmith, Felicity Knights, Anna Deal, Subash Jayakumar, Alison F. Crawshaw, Farah Seedat, Nathaniel Aspray, Dominik Zenner, Philippa Harris, Yusuf Ciftci, Fatima Wurie, Azeem Majeed, Tess Harris, Philippa Matthews, Rebecca Hall, Ana Requena-Mendez, Sally Hargreaves   +17 more
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Migrant Health Country Profile tool (MHCP-t) for transforming health data collection and surveillance in the Middle East and North African (MENA) region: tool development protocol with embedded process evaluation

BMJ Open
Introduction The Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region is characterised by major health disparities and complex migration flows. Yet, because of a lack of epidemiological data, there is an urgent need to strengthen routine data collection around ...
Farah Seedat, Bouchra Assarag, Kolitha Wickramage, Sally Hargreaves, Ana Requena-Mendez, Dominik Zenner, Anna Deal, Stella Evangelidou, Oumnia Bouaddi, Moudrick Abdellatifi, Hassan Edries, Eman Elafef, Taha Maatoug, Anissa Ouahchi, Sara Arias, Adel Abdelkhalek, Ibrahim Ahmed Bani, Kenza Hassouni, Mahmoud Hilali, Mohamed Khalis, Wejdene Mansour, Ali Mtiraoui, Hassan Chrifi, Mohamed Douagi, Abdedayem Khelifi   +24 more
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How can we improve migrant health checks in UK primary care: ‘Health Catch-UP!’ a protocol for a participatory intervention development study

BMJ Open
Introduction Global migration has steadily risen, with 16% of the UK population born abroad. Migrants (defined here as foreign-born individuals) face unique health risks, including potential higher rates and delays in diagnosis of infectious and non ...
Azeem Majeed, Sarah Tonkin-Crine, Felicity Knights, Farah Seedat, Rebecca Hall, Sally Hargreaves, Tess Harris, Jessica Carter, Dominik Zenner, Anna Deal, Ana Requena Mendez, Yusuf Ciftci, Nuria Sanchez-Clemente, Philippa Harris, Janet Alfred, Kathryn Mackey, Eltayeb Hassan, Jose Trueba, Nimal Jayawardhena, Isra Al-Sharabi, Nathaniel Aspray, Subash Jayakumar   +21 more
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Teaching the learners with a migrant background – teachers’ perspectives

Acta Universitatis Lodziensis. Folia Litteraria Polonica, 2020
As a result of the growing number of migrants in Poland, schools accept increasing numbers of learners with a migrant background (immigrants and reimmigrants), and they are not always able to successfully help the newcomers in their integration ...
Małgorzata Pamuła-Behrens, Marta Szymańska   +1 more
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Factors influencing malnutrition among adolescent girls in The Gambia: a mixed-methods exploratory study

BMC Public Health
Background In The Gambia, existing research to understand and address malnutrition among adolescent girls is limited. Prior to the conduct of large-scale studies, formative research is needed.
Haddy Jallow-Badjan, Tanefa A. Apekey, Maria J. Maynard   +2 more
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Infectious disease testing of UK-bound refugees: a population-based, cross-sectional study

BMC Medicine, 2018
Background The UK, like a number of other countries, has a refugee resettlement programme. External factors, such as higher prevalence of infectious diseases in the country of origin and circumstances of travel, are likely to increase the infectious ...
Alison F. Crawshaw, Manish Pareek, John Were, Steffen Schillinger, Olga Gorbacheva, Kolitha P. Wickramage, Sema Mandal, Valerie Delpech, Noel Gill, Hilary Kirkbride, Dominik Zenner   +10 more
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