Canada owes refugees adequate health coverage

Canada owes refugees adequate health coverage.

The health of immigrants and refugees in Canada.

Canada admits between more than 200,000 immigrants every year. National policy emphasizes rigorous selection to ensure that Canada admits healthy immigrants. However, remarkably little policy is directed to ensuring that they stay healthy. This neglect is wrong-headed: keeping new settlers healthy is just, humane, and consistent with national self-interest. By identifying personal vulnerabiliti...

Syrian refugees in Lebanon: the search for universal health coverage

The crisis in Syria has forced more than 4 million people to find refuge outside Syria. In Lebanon, in 2015, the refugee population represented 30 % of the total population. International health assistance has been provided to refugee populations in Lebanon. However, the current humanitarian system has also contributed to increase fragmentation of the Lebanese health system. Ensuring universal ...

Strongyloidiasis in immigrants and refugees in Canada.

Strongyloides stercoralis is an intes tinal roundworm transmitted primarily through barefoot skin exposure in the tropics or subtropics. Acute infection may present with papular rash, cough or wheezing, and gastrointestinal symptoms.1 Manifestations of chronic infection are present in up to half of infected patients and may include abdominal pain, diarrhea, vomiting, recurrent asthma, a Löffler...

Health problems of refugees.

BACKGROUND The United States has recently seen an increase in the number of refugees and a change in the ethnicity of these refugees. It would be helpful for family physicians providing medical care to these patients to have available health data on the largest groups of new refugees. METHODS Using the key words "refugee," "Vietnam," "Laos," "former Yugoslavia" (Bosnia-Herzegovina), "former S...