From: Migrants’ and refugees’ health status and healthcare in Europe: a scoping literature review
Study | Country | Type of study | Study design | Population | Sample size | |||
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Scholarly article | Grey literature | Quantitative | Qualitative | |||||
Cross sectional | Longitudinal | |||||||
Matlin et al. (2018) | Europe and beyond (region, country and province and city jurisdictional level) | Yes (literature review | ||||||
Aichberger at al. (2012) | Germany | Yes | Yes | German residents50+ born outside or who have immigrated to Germany | 2890 | |||
Berchet & Jusot (2012) | France | Yes (Literature Review) | ||||||
Estrada & Lazimi (2013) | France | Yes | Yes (128) | Yes (33 interviews) | Women visiting MdM health facilities in Paris and St Denis | |||
Rechel at al. (2012) | European Union | Yes (Literature Review) | ||||||
Rommel et al. (2015) | Germany | Yes | Yes | Population-wide 18+ | 8151 | |||
Bozorgmeh et al. (2016) | Germany | Yes | Yes | Yes | Heads of all German public health authorities | 389 | ||
Biffl (2003) | Austria | Yes (Conference paper) | Yes | Population wide | ||||
Padovese et al. (2015) | Malta | Yes | Yes | Migrants men and women | 2216 | |||
Kotsioni & Egidi (2013) | Malta and Greece | Yes (Report) | Yes | Migrants and asylum seekers in immigration detention facilities in Greece and Malta between 2008 and 2011 | ||||
D’Hermies and de Champs-Léger (2015) | France | Yes | Yes | Outpatients with ophthalmic issues from the free access to healthcare facilities at an Hospital in Paris | 150 | |||
Lot et al. (2012) | France | Yes | Yes | Migrants with HIV, TB or Hepatisis B | National data base | |||
Che & Antoine (2011) | France | Yes | Yes (epidemiological) | TB | National data base | |||
Albares et al. (2012) | Spain | Yes | Yes (epidemiological) | All immigrant patients seen at the dermatology clinic between February 2005 and February 2006 in Alicante (Spain). | ||||
Aguilar-Duran & Sánchez Martínez (2014) | Spain | Yes | Yes | All the patients diagnosed with TL in Hospital del Mar (Barcelona) between 1990 and 2009. | ||||
Calderón Sandubete et al. (2014) | Spain | Yes (Literature review) | ||||||
Crepet et al. (2015) | Italy | Yes (NGO report) | Yes | Asylum seekers MSF clinics in Sicily | 385 | |||
Simonnot et al. (2016) | Europe | Yes (NGO report) | Yes | Vulnerable migrants in 31 cities/12 countries | 30,534 patients | |||
ANCI,Caritas italiana Fondazione Mifa, Servizio centrale dello Sprar (2016) | Italy | Yes (Report) | Yes | |||||
Taylor-East & Caruana (2014) | Malta | Yes | ||||||
Camilleri and Taylor-East (2010) | Malta | Yes | Yes | All patients newly admitted, with a diagnosis of psychosis; no exclusion criteria related to age, gender or ethnicity. | 111 patients, 67 of whom were male and 44 female | |||
Burbotte et al. (2011) | France | Yes | Yes | Children 1 to 15 years old | 315 | |||
Monpierre et al. (2016) | France | Yes (Thesis) | Yes (Combination of biological tests, plus medical file of patient, hospital data and data from the place where the minor lives). | Minors | ||||
Pavlopoulo et al. (2017) | Greece | Yes | Yes | Migrant and refugees Children 1 to 14 years old out patient clinic of a tertiary hospital | 300 | |||
Giannakopoulos et al. (2016) | Greece | Yes (Lancet short note) | ||||||
Bodenwinkler et al. (2012) | Austria | Yes | Yes | Children 12 years old | Representative sample of randomly selected children attending public schools | |||
Kaoutar et al. (2014) | France | Yes | Yes | Patients from the free access to healthcare facilities at the French National Health Service | 581 | |||
Kaoutar et al. (2012) | France | Yes | Yes (Quantitative, by questionnaire and medical examination) | Patients from the free access to healthcare facility at the Baudelaire Hospital - Paris | 536 | |||
Debono & Grazia (2016) | Malta | Yes (Report for the European Commission) | Desk analysis of national policies for asylum seekers and refugees | |||||
Barda et al. (2016) | France) | Yes | Yes | The population of Médecins du Monde health centers in Paris and Saint Denis in particular vulnerable migrants who faced accomodation issue | ||||
Dray Soira et al. (2015) | France | Yes | Yes | National data bases | 778 outpatients in 20 healthcare settings | |||
Bergeon & Hoyez (2015) | France | Yes | Yes | Ethnography and qualitative interviews to migrants living in squats | Well regarded study | |||
Cognet et al. (2012) | France | Yes | Yes (qualitative interviews follow up sof the quantitative survey “Trajectoires et Origines” | Not newly arrived migrants but with a life course focus on discimination linked to the country of origin | ||||
Bradby et al. (2015) | Europe | Yes (literature review) | ||||||
Tognetti (2015) | Italy | Yes (literature review) | ||||||
Affronti et al. (2014) | Italy | Yes (book chapter – desk research) | ||||||
Suess et al. (2014) | Spain | Yes (narrative review of comparative studies published between 2009 and 2012 | ||||||
Cuadra (2010) | Europe | Yes (Comparative report or laws and regulations in Eu countries) | Survey among national experts in law and regulations on care for undocumented migrants | |||||
Pithara et al. (2012) | Cyprus | Yes | Qualitative on temporary migrants to access and use effectively healthcare services in Cyprus | Semistructured interview with domestic workers and students | 13 domestic workers and 13 students | |||
Kouta et al. (2013) | Cyprus | Yes | Quantitative (closed-ended questionnaire referring to the knowledge, attitudes and behaviour of the participants in relation to HIV/AIDS | 600 partecipants: migrant from non EU countries from two cities in Cyprus (Nicosia, Limassol). | ||||
Sanchez et al. (2016) | Cyprus | Yes (report) | Literature review and face to face interviews and focus group | 9 immigrants from different countries | ||||
Marques (2012) | Europe | Yes (note reviewing undocumented migrants’ access to healthcare) | ||||||
Aditus (2013) | Malta | Yes (NGO report) | Standardized questionnaires | People in all phases of the settlement and integration processes in Malta. | 156 people, 55 female, and 101 male. | |||
Association Aides (2015) | France | Yes (NGO report) | Questionnaire | Yes | Migrants with heath issues. National foreign who apply to a regularization of their administrative situation in regards to their health status. | |||
Chappuis et al. 2015 | France | Yes (NGO report) | Yes | Yes | Patients visiting Médecins du Monde (MdM) health centers in France | |||
Bas Sarmiento et al. (2015) | Spain (Campo de Gibraltar) | Yes | Qualitative | 51 migrants from 11 countries | ||||
Kohls (2012) | Germany | Yes (report from the Federal Agency for Migration and Refugees) | Elderly people | |||||
Frank et al. (2017) | Germany | Yes (literature review on the general health care delivery for refugees/asylum seekers) | Refugees/Asylum seekers | |||||
Razum (2008) | Germany | Health reporting of the Federal German Government conducted by Robert-Koch-Institute and the Federal Statistical Office | Survey | Migrants | Statistically representative sample of the population | |||
Taglieri et al. (2013) | Italy | Yes (Healthcare Institute report) | Report on the activity of the HIV phone counselling | Non-Italian population living in Italy and accessing the Intervention for the prevention of HIV infection | ||||
Osservatorio della salute (2016) | Italy | Yes (National Institute of Statistic report) | Census data | Resident foreign population by municipality | Census | |||
Grech & Pisani (2016) | Malta | NGO report | FGDs and in-depth interviews | Female population | 9 Refugee Women from Syria, Somalia, Libya, Eritrea, Ethiopia, and Ivory Coast in Malta 2 health care providers | |||
Råssjö (2013) | Sweden | Yes | Quantitative (retrospective case control study) - antenatal health record) | Migrants and non-migrants women using ante-natale care | 523 Swedish-born women and 262 Somali women | |||
Villadsen et al. (2016) | Europe; North America; Australia | Yes | Literature review and case study | Best practices Best Practice & Research Clinical Obstetrics and Gynaecoloy | ||||
GLM study | Austria | Yes | ||||||
`Ganhal (2016) | Austria | Yes | Turkish, Bosnia/Croatia/Serbia | |||||
Rosano (2015) | Italy and Spain | Yes | Quantitate, secondary analysis | Migrants and native population in Italy and Spain, Census data | European Union Statistics on Income and Living Conditions (EUSILC) | |||
Koponen et al. (2014) | Finland | Yes | Yes –(Survey) | Migrants from Russian, Somali, Kurdish background aged 18–64 years | 3000 persons of Russian, Somali or Kurdish origin | |||
Wångdahl (2014) | Sweden | Yes | Yes (survey) | Adult refugees connected to language schools for migrants in Sweden | 455 adult refugees | |||
Crede´ et al. (2017) | Europe | Yes | Systematic literature review | International migrants’ using EDs in European Economic Area (EEA) countries compared with that of non-migrants | ||||
Kohls (2011) | Germany | Yes | Statistical analysis | Foreign nationals | Data from the official statistics, data of the national central register of foreign nationals and of the statutory pension insurance | |||
Halmdienst et al. (2013) | Europe | Yes | Longitudinal, multidisciplinary and international data collection (SHARE) | Migrants 50+, partly focus on groups from Former Yugoslavia | 60,000 people over the age of 50 are examined for health, age, pension-specific and financial issues in around 20 European countries and Israel. | |||
Reinprecht et al. (2016) | Austria (City of Vienna) | Yes | Survey | Qualitative interviews | Older migrant from Turkey, Former Yugoslavia, Poland, Iran | 60,000 people over the age of 50 11 qualitative interviews | ||
Tsitsakis (2017) | Greece | Yes | Secondary quantitative analysis | Data from five of the six public hospitals in the specified region; per clinic cross tabulation analysis of admission diagnosis and citizenship variables | ||||
Ben Cheikh (2011) | Spain | Yes | Retrospective longitudinal study | 2004–2007 Hospital discharges of the foreign population in public hospitals in Aragon | ||||
Carmona at al. (2014) | Spain | Yes (Systematic literature review of survey-based evidence on the use of care among migrants) | Migrants | |||||
Gistau et al. (2012) | Spain | Yes | Qualitative FGs and semi-structured interviews | Respondents of 4 professional profiles: directors or coordinators, physicians, nurses, and cultural mediators. | 73 hospital and primary health care professionals | |||
Psarros et al. (2016) | Greece | Yes | Action research to provide psychological support through education, training and psychological support | Caregivers who worked as volunteers in non-governmental organisations in the hotspot of Moria on the island of Mytilene and in Idomeni (near the northern Greek border) | 57 caregivers (30 women and 27 men) with a mean age of 32·3 years, who worked continuously for 70 days on average. | |||
Hunter (2016) | Europe | Yes (Commentary on healthcare for migrants and refugees in different European countries in historical perspective) | Migrants and Refugees | |||||
Dara et al. (2016) | Europe | Yes | Yes A questionnaire investigating screening and management practices among refugees | National TB programme representatives of all EU/European Economic Area countries of the WHO European Region, Switzerland and six additional (Albania, Bosnia and Herzegovina, the former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia, Montenegro, Serbia and Turkey | 36 national TB programme representatives of low and intermediate TB incidence European countries/territories of the WHO European Region | |||
Morgan (2016) | Greece | Yes (Interview with senior medical officer published in The Lancet) | Refugees in a Northern Greek camp | |||||
Psoinos et al. (2017) | Greece | Missing from Zotero | ||||||
Associazione Nazionale Comuni Italiani (Anci) et al. (2016) | Italy | Yes NGO report | Overview of the literature an best practices on mental health of migrants and refugees in Italy | Young and adult asylum seekers and refugees | ||||
Medici senza Frontiere (2016) | Italy | Yes NGO report | Survey | Qualitative (interview and focus group) | Mental health service providers and migrants with mental health problems | 135 participants (providers and migrants) | ||
HCDCP et al. (2016) | Italy, Greece and Spain | Yes NGO report | Report on health assistance to migrants, refugees and asylum seekers through civil society organizations. | Refugees and asylum seekers, but also internal migrants, irregular migrants, trafficked persons, internally displaced people | Representatives from civil society organizations and also representatives from public | |||
Tsiamis, Riza et al. (2016) | Greece | Yes (correspondence on the Lancet) | ||||||
Alcaraz et al. (2014) | Spain | Yes | Cross-sectional study | Immigrant women | 339 episodes of care from February 2008 to October 2011 in Valencia |