Paediatric malaria in Greece in the era of global population mobility

Time delays in the diagnosis and treatment of malaria in non-endemic countries: A systematic review

“…Since diagnostic delays are still common in non-endemic countries; strategies to reduce both the patient and healthcare factors should be promoted. This can include encouraging travellers to seek pre-travel health advice; which can inform them on recognising malaria symptoms and to seek healthcare promptly [33]. Additionally, reminding travellers and healthcare providers that malaria symptoms can develop up to 1 year after return from travel could make the travellers more likely to disclose their travel history and healthcare providers more likely to consider a diagnosis of malaria if symptoms arise within that period.…”

The Public Health perspective on Migratory Health – Displaced Populations in Global Disease Epidemics

“…The quarantine-strategies in migration health practices has ensured that much of the interest in health and migration is directed towards communicable diseases [5]. Generally, migrant medical screening is focused on conditions that prevails in different magnitudes between the migrant and host population, such as tuberculosis, and other poverty related diseases in the case of low income economies [6 Incidence of the Hansen diseases [7], and those suffering from syphilis infection [8]. In cases where medical screening are adopted and has been applied to evaluate and report public health and disease situation in the migrant population, in some cases to give an insight into the national and global health statistics.…”

“…In migratory population the health-based approach in migratory health gives consideration into the factor of migration and health as a closely linked process that can be affected by short term and other local factors. [7,20]. It has been shown by many indications that the population based approach are possibly less associated with the administrative principles of population displacement [22] and very closely linked to those important factors or characteristics that drives or motivate migration at national and global level.…”