Refugee Migration and Health

This book focuses on the closely interlinked areas of refugee migration and health. It discusses the main challenges of the recent unprecedented, extremely diverse and mostly unregulated refugee migration wave for Germany and Europe, and offers a broader view of refugee health from a European perspective. Health issues can lead to several challenges for refugees as well as healthcare providers, and as such the book also examines the requirements for the management of migrant populations in terms of medical care and health system adaptations, and includes theoretical aspects of refugee migration and health as well as various perspectives on the latest developments. Lastly, it describes the healthcare system demands and responses for short- and long-term care of refugees.

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Prof. Dr. Alexander Kraemer is an internist, epidemiologist and public health expert. From 1994 - 2017, he was the Head of the Department of Public Health Medicine at the School of Public Health, Bielefeld University. Currently, he is senior professor and director of the Graduate Research Programme on Refugee Health (FlüGe) at the University of Bielefeld that comprises six different faculties. Alexander Kraemer has extensive experience in the design, conduction and analysis of population-based studies and has participated in large research consortia on the health of migrants in Europe, syndromic surveillance, burden of communicable diseases, and two long-term projects on health in megacities in China and Bangladesh.

Dr. Florian Fischer is trained as a paramedic and studied health communication and public health at Bielefeld University. He is an expert in the field of epidemiology and public health. His research and teaching activities focus on global health, the burden of disease approach, evidence-based public health and eHealth. Since 2016, he has coordinated a graduate school at Bielefeld University, which includes 13 doctoral students from various scientific disciplines focussing on the topic of refugee health.

Inhalt
Part 1: Theoritical Foundations and Recent Developments.- 1. Refugee Health: Public Health theory and Disease Dynamics.- 2. Overview of Migration and Health in Europe.- 3. Social Transformation(s): International Migration and Health.- 4. Migrants, Refugees, Asylum Seekers: Use and Misuse of Labels in Public Health Research.- 5. Mental Health Enables Integration: Re-thinking Treatment Approaches for Refugees.- Part 2: Refugee Health in Germany: Healthcare System Demands and Responses.- 6. Screening for Infectious Diseases on Arrival and Integrated Healthcare for Refugees and Asylum Seekers during the First Months after Arrival.- 7. The Building of Structures for Acute Care, Initial Medical Screening, and Vaccination Prevention for Refugees in the State of Berlin Challenges and New Concepts.- 8. German Public Health Services and Refugee Health: Overview of Current Experiences of Healthcare in Bavaria.- 9. Health Status and Disease Burden of Unaccompanied Asylum Seeking Adolescents at a Single Centre in Bielefeld.- 10. Future Challenges for the Public and Curative Health Sector. Part 3: European Perspective on Refugee Health.- 11. Migrants' Health Protection: Socio-health and Legal Situation of Asylum Seekers and Refugees in Italy.- 12. The Challenge of a Comprehensive Health Response to the Refugee Crisis in Greece.- 13. Healthcare for Refugees in the Netherlands: The Stepped-care Model.- 14. Refugees and Health in Switzerland.- 15. Refugee and Migrant Health: A Perspective from Sweden.- 16. Challenges in Meeting the Mental Health and Wellbeing Needs of Refugee Children and Young People in England: Evaluation and Critique of Policy and Guidance.- Part 4: Conclusion.- 17. Conclusion: Roadmap for Refugee Health.