Immigrant and Refugee Health

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• Alternative Title:
  Pediatr Clin North Am
• Personal Author:
  Mitchell, Tarissa ; Weinberg, Michelle ; Posey, Drew L. ; Cetron, Martin
• Description:
  Migration and forced displacement are at record levels in today's geopolitical environment; ensuring the health of migrating populations and the health security of asylum and receiving countries is critically important. Overseas screening, treatment, and vaccination during planned migration to the United States represents one successful model. These strategies have improved tuberculosis detection and treatment, reducing rates in the United States; decreased transmission and importation of vaccine-preventable diseases; prevented morbidity and mortality from parasitic diseases among refugees; and saved health costs. We describe the work of CDC's Division of Global Migration and Quarantine and partners in developing and implementing these strategies.
• Subjects:
  Article Centers For Disease Control And Prevention Centers For Disease Control And Prevention, U.S. Communicable Disease Control Communicable Diseases Emigrants And Immigrants Health Care Costs Humans Mass Screening Migration Parasitic Diseases Population Surveillance Public Health Practice Refugees Tuberculosis United States Vaccination

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• Source:
  Pediatr Clin North Am. 66(3):549-560
• Pubmed ID:
  31036234
• Pubmed Central ID:
  PMC6625646
• Document Type:
  Journal Article
• Funding:
  CC999999/Intramural CDC HHS/United States
• Volume:
  66
• Issue:
  3
• Collection(s):
  CDC Public Access
• Main Document Checksum:
  urn:sha256:0c8d6cc6d02c0693924a07370794c479a7b665b9454917b18634fa21f2fa2003
• Download URL:
  https://stacks.cdc.gov/view/cdc/79782/cdc_79782_DS1.pdf
• File Type:
  [PDF - 828.72 KB ]