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Table 1 List of reviewed studies (77 total)

From: Migrants’ and refugees’ health status and healthcare in Europe: a scoping literature review

Study

Country

Type of study

Study design

Population

Sample size

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