Health-related aspects of the European refugee crisis based on the article titeled„Europe’s collective failure to address the refugee” published in Public Health Reviews on 8 July 2016

Abstract

The crowd of refugees targeting Europe has brought unprecedented challenge for many member states. International response include –among other measures –providing a continuous health care for all migrants, especially for the most vulnerable. However, migrants’ health care needs are extremely heterogeneous. Health care and psycho-social support provided for people, with their diverse cultural, health-cultural, religious and linguistic background, illness structure, habits to take medical advice, and legal status; requires novel knowledge and skills from health care workers and other professionals.