Criteria | Include | Exclude |
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1. Context | Any country experiencing in-migration. | No migration mentioned. |
2. Topic | Mention of disease surveillance targeting refugees, as defined either by mandate or 1951 Convention. | Target populations include only one group of migrants who are not necessarily refugees (e.g. only asylum-seekers, only foreign-born persons, immigration detainees, labour migrants, internally-displaced). |
3. Outcomes | Processes and methods of infectious disease surveillance for refugees: a. organizational aspects of surveillance; b. policies or protocols related to surveillance; c. assessment outcomes of surveillance activities. | Only describes clinical screening, ecological surveillance, forecasting studies, prospective one-time studies, cross-sectional or epidemiological studies to find prevalence of diseases, access to healthcare, ethical considerations and human rights aspects of surveillance, non-communicable diseases surveillance, prevention activities of infectious diseases, mental health studies, TB or HIV screening. |
4. Source type | All journal article types (e.g. research, commentary, review). | 4. Duplicates, e.g. conference abstracts for which an article exists. |
5. Time-period | Any | NA |
6. Language | Any language with an English abstract available. | No English abstract. |