Refugee Migration and Health ― Challenges for Germany and Europe

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.

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 (FluGe) 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.