Vaccine-preventable diseases and immunisation coverage among migrants and non-migrants
Citation: Charania NA, Gaze N, Kung JY, et al. Vaccine-preventable diseases and immunisation coverage among migrants and non-migrants worldwide: A scoping review of published literature, 2006 to 2016. Vaccine. 2019;37(20):2661-9.
Language: English.
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What is this? Increased international migration and displacement has health, economic, social and environmental implications for host countries. These include the transmission and management of infectious diseases, and information on this might help policy makers making decisions about diseases such as COVID-19.
In this scoping review, the authors searched for evidence on disparities of immunization coverage and burden of vaccine-preventable diseases amongst migrants and non-migrants. They restricted their searches to articles published in English between 2006 to 2016. They included 45 studies, which were focused on immunization rates (27 studies), vaccine-preventable diseases (13) or both (5).
What was found: Immunization coverage rate differed based on the migrants’ country of origin.
Migrant populations and their children faced a greater risk of contracting or transmitting vaccine-preventable diseases and lower immunization rates when compared to the host country population.
This summary was prepared by Surya Ramachandran, edited by Sydney Johnson and finalized by Mike Clarke.