Access to healthcare for the most vulnerable migrants: a humanitarian crisis
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Pottie, KevinMartin, Jorge Pedro
Cornish, Stephen
Biorklund, Linn Maria
Gayton, Ivan
Doerner, Frank
Schneider, Fabien
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2015-05-07
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Conflict and HealthAbstract
A series of Médecins Sans Frontières projects for irregular migrants over the past decade have consistently documented high rates of 14 physical and sexual trauma, extortion and mental illness amidst severe healthcare, food, and housing limitations. Complex interventions were needed to begin to address illness and barriers to healthcare and to help restore dignity to the most vulnerable women, children and men. Promising interventions included mobile clinics, use of cultural mediators, coordination with migrant-friendly entities and NGOs and integrating advocacy programs and mental health care with medical services. Ongoing interventions, research and coordination are needed to address this neglected humanitarian crisis.Publisher
BioMed Central (Springer Science)PubMed ID
25991922Language
enISSN
1752-1505ae974a485f413a2113503eed53cd6c53
10.1186/s13031-015-0043-8
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