Structural and procedural barriers to health assessment for asylum seekers and other migrants – an explorative survey in Sweden

Autor: Robert Jonzon, Pille Lindkvist, Anna-Karin Hurtig

Publikováno v: BMC Health Services Research, Vol 18, Iss 1, Pp 1-13 (2018)

Abstract Background Health assessments (HAs) for newly arrived asylum seekers have become a regular practice in most EU countries, but what is performed, how they are organized, and whether it is mandatory or not to attend varies between countries. S

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A state of limbo – in transition between two contexts: Health assessments upon arrival in Sweden as perceived by former Eritrean asylum seekers

Autor: Pille Lindkvist, Eva Johansson, Robert Jonzon

Publikováno v: Scandinavian Journal of Public Health

Background: National statistics have shown that only about 40% of asylum seekers actually attend the optional health assessment offered upon their arrival in Sweden, but the reasons for this have not been fully explored. Health assessments for newly

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https://doi.org/10.1177/1403494815576786

Risk Factors for Infection with Helicobacter pylori - a Study of Children in Rural Ethiopia

Autor: Johan Giesecke, Fikre Enquselassie, Daniel Asrat, Lulu Muhe, Ingrid Nilsson, Pille Lindkvist

Publikováno v: Scandinavian Journal of Infectious Diseases. 30:371-376

The public health impact of Helicobacter pylori (HP) infection is gradually becoming obvious, the bacterium now being implicated as an aetiologic agent in a variety of gastric diseases. Transmission routes still remain unknown, although single risk f

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https://doi.org/10.1080/00365549850160666

'Maybe his blood is still strong': a qualitative study among HIV-sero-discordant couples on ART in rural Uganda

Autor: Pille Lindkvist, Eva Johansson, Rachel King, Kenneth Khana, Rebecca Bunnell, Nafuna Wamai

Publikováno v: King, Rachel; Wamai, Nafuna; Khana, Kenneth; Johansson, Eva; Lindkvist, Pille; & Bunnell, Rebecca. (2012). ¿Maybe his blood is still strong¿: a qualitative study among HIV-sero-discordant couples on ART in rural Uganda. BMC Public Health, 12(1), 801. doi: http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1471-2458-12-801. Retrieved from: http://www.escholarship.org/uc/item/2qh822jw
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Background HIV-negative members of sero-discordant couples are at high risk for HIV acquisition but few behavioral prevention interventions have been implemented in sub-Saharan Africa and discordance is not well understood by couples themselves. Meth

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https://doi.org/10.1186/1471-2458-12-801

The virus stops with me: HIV-infected Ugandans' motivations in preventing HIV transmission

Autor: Rebecca Bunnell, Rachel King, Sylvia Nakayiwa, Julie Lifshay, Pille Lindkvist, David Katuntu

Publikováno v: Social sciencemedicine (1982). 68(4)

Few Positive Prevention interventions have been implemented in Africa; however, greater attention is now being paid to interventions that include messages of personal responsibility or altruism that may motivate HIV-infected individuals towards HIV p

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https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/19101063