Oliver Razum

TL;DR: It is argued that the concept of their ‘fair’ (but factually enforced) relocation across the EU is flawed and may ultimately be detrimental from a public health perspective.

TL;DR: A risk score to predict hypertension by primary health care workers in rural India was developed and age ≥35 years, current smoking, prehypertension, and central obesity were significantly associated with incident hypertension.

TL;DR: In 2015, Germany’s federal government missed the opportunity to introduce the EHC nationwide; this decision was left to municipalities, resulting in substantial heterogeneity of EHC uptake, adding yet another dimension to the intolerable inequality between citizens and asylum seekers.

TL;DR: For decades, researchers have been puzzled by the finding that despite low socioeconomic status, fewer social mobility opportunities, and access barriers to health care, some migrants appear to experience lower mortality than the majority population of the respective host country (and possibly also of the country of origin) as discussed by the authors.

TL;DR: Major challenges for cancer epidemiology among migrants exist in Germany because epidemiologic approaches studying cancer care and services for migrants, as well as analytic studies that allow assessing the particular temporal dynamics of cancer risks among migrant groups, are scarce.