Timing of chronic hepatitis B diagnosis after migration and its determinants among Sub-Saharan African migrants living in France.

ABSTRACT:

Objective

In European countries, chronic hepatitis B (CHB) disproportionately affects migrants from medium- and high-endemic areas and is largely underdiagnosed. To inform policy and improve screening strategies, we measured the timing of CHB diagnosis after migration and its determinants among sub-Saharan migrants living in the Paris metropolitan area (France).

Design

The PARCOURS study is a retrospective life-event history survey conducted in health care services in 2012-2013 among 779 migrants from sub-Saharan Africa who were receiving care for CHB. We investigated the timing of CHB diagnosis from the time of arrival in France using the Kaplan-Meier method and characteristics associated with CHB diagnosis since the time of arrival in France using discrete-time multivariat

SUBMITTER: Pannetier J 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5746227 | biostudies-literature | 2017

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature