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Euro Surveill. Assessment of public health issues of migrants at the Greek-Turkish border, April 2011
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Eurosurveillance, Volume 17, Issue 2, 12 January 2012
Perspectives
Assessment of public health issues of migrants at the Greek-Turkish border, April 2011
E Mertens (
)<SUP>1</SUP><SUP>,2</SUP>, G Rockenschaub<SUP>3</SUP>, A Economopoulou<SUP>4</SUP>, P Kreidl<SUP>5</SUP>
Citation style for this article: Mertens E, Rockenschaub G, Economopoulou A, Kreidl P. Assessment of public health issues of migrants at the Greek-Turkish border, April 2011. Euro Surveill. 2012;17(2):pii=20056. Available online: http://www.eurosurveillance.org/View...rticleId=20056
Date of submission: 14 October 2011 <HR>A joint mission to assess the public health situation of migrants in Greek detention centres was undertaken in April 2011 by the European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control (ECDC) and the World Health Organization (WHO) Regional Office for Europe. The assessment visit follows the increased migration to the Evros prefecture, Eastern Macedonia and Thrace region, at the Greek-Turkish border where large numbers of migrants are entering Greece via the Evros River, a natural border. Migrants are housed in local detention centres. The main problem in detention centres are the substandard hygiene conditions, especially overcrowding and lack of personal hygiene facilities, lack of basic supplies and lack of access to fresh air and physical exercise. As the migration route via the Evros region is increasingly used since 2009, and due to the unstable political situation in North Africa and the Middle East, an increased influx of migrants was to be expected with the falling water levels of the Evros River in summer, resulting in further deterioration of the already critical situation in the Thrace region?s detention centres.
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Eurosurveillance, Volume 17, Issue 2, 12 January 2012
Perspectives
Assessment of public health issues of migrants at the Greek-Turkish border, April 2011
E Mertens (
- Postgraduate Training for Applied Epidemiology (PAE), Robert Koch Institute, Berlin, Germany
- European Programme for Intervention Epidemiology Training (EPIET), European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control (ECDC), Stockholm, Sweden
- World Health Organization (WHO) Regional Office for Europe, Copenhagen, Denmark
- Hellenic Centre for Disease Prevention and Control, Athens, Greece
- European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control, (ECDC), Stockholm, Sweden
Citation style for this article: Mertens E, Rockenschaub G, Economopoulou A, Kreidl P. Assessment of public health issues of migrants at the Greek-Turkish border, April 2011. Euro Surveill. 2012;17(2):pii=20056. Available online: http://www.eurosurveillance.org/View...rticleId=20056
Date of submission: 14 October 2011 <HR>A joint mission to assess the public health situation of migrants in Greek detention centres was undertaken in April 2011 by the European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control (ECDC) and the World Health Organization (WHO) Regional Office for Europe. The assessment visit follows the increased migration to the Evros prefecture, Eastern Macedonia and Thrace region, at the Greek-Turkish border where large numbers of migrants are entering Greece via the Evros River, a natural border. Migrants are housed in local detention centres. The main problem in detention centres are the substandard hygiene conditions, especially overcrowding and lack of personal hygiene facilities, lack of basic supplies and lack of access to fresh air and physical exercise. As the migration route via the Evros region is increasingly used since 2009, and due to the unstable political situation in North Africa and the Middle East, an increased influx of migrants was to be expected with the falling water levels of the Evros River in summer, resulting in further deterioration of the already critical situation in the Thrace region?s detention centres.