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The European Journal of Public Health 2008 18(6):552-553; doi:10.1093/eurpub/ckn032
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© The Author 2008. Published by Oxford University Press on behalf of the European Public Health Association. All rights reserved.

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Inspecting asylum seekers upon entry—a medico–ethical complex

Guido François1, Ramona Hambach1,2, Marc van Sprundel1, Walter Devillé3 and Guido Van Hal1

1 Department of Epidemiology and Social Medicine, University of Antwerpen, Campus Drie Eiken, Universiteitsplein 1, 2610 Antwerpen, Belgium
2 Mensura Occupational Health Services, Kipdorpvest 55, 2000 Antwerpen, Belgium
3 NIVEL, Netherlands Institute for Health Services Research, International and Migrant Health, PB 1568, 3500 BN Utrecht, The Netherlands

Correspondence: Guido François, Department of Epidemiology and Social Medicine, University of Antwerpen, Campus Drie Eiken, Universiteitsplein 1, 2610 Antwerpen, Belgium, tel: +32 3 820 28 74, fax: +32 3 820 28 75, e-mail: guido.francois@ua.ac.be

Received March 6, 2008, accepted March 31, 2008

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   Asylum seekers
 
In September 2007, the UN Refugee Agency UNHCR summarized the main asylum application levels and trends during the first six months of the year in 36 industrialized countries, including 26 European Union (EU) Member States. Based on the assumption of unchanged yearly patterns, the total number of new asylum claims lodged in these 36 countries over 2007 is about 300 000. The overall number of claims has decreased continuously over the past few years, but this trend was reversed in the second half of 2006. The current numbers represent the first increase since 2001.1

Asylum seekers are considered a vulnerable group. Many of them leave their country in difficult circumstances and hope to find a new home elsewhere. In many cases they were exposed to poverty, persecution or violence before they left. Their countries of origin are often unstable in . . . [Full Text of this Article]


   Medical screening
 

   Screening and ethics
 

   Food for thought
 

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