Healthcare Utilization in a Large Cohort of Asylum Seekers Entering Western Europe in 2015.

ABSTRACT: During the current period of immigration to Western Europe, national healthcare systems are confronted with high numbers of asylum seekers with largely unknown health status. To improve care taking strategies, we assessed healthcare utilization in a large, representative cohort of newly arriving migrants consisting of n = 1533 residents of a reception center in Northern Germany in 2015. Most asylum seekers were young, male adults, and the majority came from the Eastern Mediterranean region. Overall, we observed a frequency of 0.03 visits to the onsite primary healthcare ward per asylum seeker and day of camp residence (IQR 0.0⁻0.07, median duration of residence 38.0 days, IQR 30.0⁻54.25). Female asylum seekers showed higher healthcare utilization rates than their male counterparts,

SUBMITTER: Wetzke M 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6210699 | biostudies-literature | 2018 Oct

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature