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Zadykowicz R, Kuc J, Ladomirska J, Zamatto F, Lim SY

2025-05-01 • Forced Migration Review

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Mangion JP, Mancini S, Bachy C, de Weggheleire A, Zamatto F

2023-06-21 • Public Health Action

A rising number of diphtheria cases were recorded in Europe in 2022, including in Belgium, within the newly arriving young migrant population. In October 2022, Médecins Sans Frontières (...

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Spissu C, De Maio G, Van der Bergh R, Ali E, Venables E, et al.

2018-08-01 • Torture: quarterly journal on rehabilitation of torture victims and prevention of torture

BACKGROUND
Access and linkage to care for migrant torture survivors is contingent on their identification and appropriate referral. However, appropriate tools for identification of s...

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Case Report/Series

Womersley G, Kloetzer L, Van der Bergh R, Venables E, Severy N, et al.

2018-07-26 • Torture: quarterly journal on rehabilitation of torture victims and prevention of torture

INTRODUCTION
The dual trauma of being a victim of torture as well as a refugee is related to a myriad of losses, human rights violations and other dimensions of suffering linked to t...

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Commentary

Alirol E, Lechevalier P, Zamatto F, Chappuis F, Alcoba G, et al.

2015-09-10 • PLOS Neglected Tropical Diseases

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Zamatto F, Argenziano S, Arsenijević J, Ponthieu A, Bertotto M, et al.

2017-09-14 • BMJ Global Health

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Arsenijević J, Schillberg EBL, Ponthieu A, Malvisi L, Ahmed AO, et al.

2017-04-16 • Conflict and Health

BACKGROUND
Pushed by ongoing conflicts and pulled by the desire for a better life, over one million migrants/refugees transited Balkan countries and arrived in Europe during 2015 and...

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Condemi F, Rossi G, Lupiz M, Pagano A, Zamatto F, et al.

2019-04-02 • BMC Pediatric Rheumatology

Rheumatic heart disease (RHD) is a chronic condition responsible of congestive heart failure, stroke and arrhythmia. Almost eradicated in high-income countries (HIC), it persists in low-...

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Arsenijević J, Burtscher D, Ponthieu A, Severy N, Contenta A, et al.

2018-07-01 • Social Science and Medicine

During 2015 and 2016, an unprecedented flow of approximately 800,000 migrants coming from Turkey towards Western Europe crossed the Balkans. Male migrants are perceived as being less vul...

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Episkopou M, Venables E, Whitehouse K, Eleftherakos C, Zamatto F, et al.

2019-07-22 • Conflict and Health

BACKGROUND
Social support is a core determinant of health and plays a key role in the healing process of people with mental health problems and those who have been exposed to torture...

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Providing emergency medical care at the Belarus-Poland border

Diphtheria in Europe

"It never happened to me, so I don’t know if there are procedures”: identification and case management of torture survivors in the reception and public health system of Rome, Italy

“My mind is not like before”: Psychosocial rehabilitation of victims of torture in Athens

Antivenoms for Snakebite Envenoming: What Is in the Research Pipeline?

Migrants caught between tides and politics in the Mediterranean: an imperative for search and rescue at sea?

A crisis of protection and safe passage: violence experienced by migrants/refugees travelling along the Western Balkan corridor to Northern Europe

Screening of asymptomatic rheumatic heart disease among refugee/migrant children and youths in Italy

"I feel like I am less than other people": Health-related vulnerabilities of male migrants travelling alone on their journey to Europe

In island containment: a qualitative exploration of social support systems among asylum seekers in a mental health care programme on Lesvos Island, Greece