Migrants Resettled Internationally and Evaluated for Specific Health Concerns

  • Patricia F. Walker
  • Louis Loutan
  • Martin Cetron
Publication date
September 2016

Abstract

(See the Major Article by Barnett et al on pages 913–24.) Background. Increasing international migration may challenge healthcare providers unfamiliar with acute and long latency infections and diseases common in this population. This study defines health conditions encoun-tered in a large heterogenous group of migrants. Methods. Migrants seen at GeoSentinel clinics for any reason, other than those seen at clinics only providing comprehensive protocol-based health screening soon after arrival, were included. Proportionate morbidity for syn-dromes and diagnoses by country or region of origin were determined and compared

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