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No One Left Behind?: Migrant and Refugee Health in the COVID-19 Crisis in Greece

No One Left Behind?: Migrant and Refugee Health in the COVID-19 Crisis in Greece
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Author(s): Athanassios Vozikis (Laboratory of Health Economics and Management (LabHEM), University of Piraeus, Greece), Theodoros Fouskas (University of West Attica, Greece)and Symeon Sidiropoulos (Laboratory of Health Economics and Management (LabHEM), University of Piraeus, Greece)
Copyright: 2021
Pages: 20
Source title: Research Anthology on Public Health Services, Policies, and Education
Source Author(s)/Editor(s): Information Resources Management Association (USA)
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-7998-8960-1.ch038

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Abstract

Asylum seekers, refugees, and migrants, who are living in RICs, are faced with multiple challenges and vulnerabilities that must be taken into consideration when responding to the COVID-19 pandemic. The chapter focuses on the COVID-19 pandemic concerns over increasing cases recorded in the RICs in Greece. The impact of migration on public health is of particular concern to Greek migration policy, as migrants in the country have a completely different epidemiological profile and higher risks to public health due to the poor living conditions in their countries of origin and during their stay. They live mostly in overcrowded reception and identification centers and accommodation centers under deplorable conditions, lack of proper shelter, extremely unhygienic living conditions. The urgent decongestion of the overcrowded RICs and accommodation centers is required to avoid the risk of rapid spread of the infection.

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