Refugee Migration and Health
Challenges for Germany and Europe
Editors: Krämer, Alexander, Fischer, Florian (Eds.)
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- Provides an overview of different challenges and possible solutions to promote healthcare for refugees
- Focuses on theoretical aspects and practical solutions in refugee migration and health
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- About this book
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This book focuses on the closely interlinked areas of refugee migration and health. It discusses the main challenges of the recent unprecedented, extremely diverse and mostly unregulated refugee migration wave for Germany and Europe, and offers a broader view of refugee health from a European perspective. Health issues can lead to several challenges for refugees as well as healthcare providers, and as such the book also examines the requirements for the management of migrant populations in terms of medical care and health system adaptations, and includes theoretical aspects of refugee migration and health as well as various perspectives on the latest developments. Lastly, it describes the healthcare system demands and responses for short- and long-term care of refugees.
- About the authors
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Prof. Dr. Alexander Kraemer is an internist, epidemiologist and public health expert. From 1994 - 2017, he was the Head of the Department of Public Health Medicine at the School of Public Health, Bielefeld University. Currently, he is senior professor and director of the Graduate Research Programme on Refugee Health (FlüGe) at the University of Bielefeld that comprises six different faculties. Alexander Kraemer has extensive experience in the design, conduction and analysis of population-based studies and has participated in large research consortia on the health of migrants in Europe, syndromic surveillance, burden of communicable diseases, and two long-term projects on health in megacities in China and Bangladesh.
Dr. Florian Fischer is trained as a paramedic and studied health communication and public health at Bielefeld University. He is an expert in the field of epidemiology and public health. His research and teaching activities focus on global health, the burden of disease approach, evidence-based public health and eHealth. Since 2016, he has coordinated a graduate school at Bielefeld University, which includes 13 doctoral students from various scientific disciplines focussing on the topic of refugee health.
- Table of contents (17 chapters)
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Refugee Health: Public Health Theory and Disease Dynamics
Pages 3-18
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Overview of Migration and Health in Europe
Pages 19-37
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Social Transformation(s): International Migration and Health
Pages 39-48
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Migrants, Refugees, Asylum Seekers: Use and Misuse of Labels in Public Health Research
Pages 49-62
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Mental Health Enables Integration: Re-thinking Treatment Approaches for Refugees
Pages 63-72
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Table of contents (17 chapters)
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Bibliographic Information
- Bibliographic Information
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- Book Title
- Refugee Migration and Health
- Book Subtitle
- Challenges for Germany and Europe
- Editors
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- Alexander Krämer
- Florian Fischer
- Series Title
- Migration, Minorities and Modernity
- Series Volume
- 4
- Copyright
- 2019
- Publisher
- Springer International Publishing
- Copyright Holder
- Springer Nature Switzerland AG
- eBook ISBN
- 978-3-030-03155-8
- DOI
- 10.1007/978-3-030-03155-8
- Hardcover ISBN
- 978-3-030-03154-1
- Series ISSN
- 2522-0713
- Edition Number
- 1
- Number of Pages
- XIII, 213
- Number of Illustrations
- 19 b/w illustrations, 7 illustrations in colour
- Topics