The genes road: impact of migration on newborn screening and health amid the COVID-19 pandemic in the Eastern Mediterranean region.
Abdullahi Tunde AborodeChristos TsagkarisAjagbe Abayomi OyeyemiOnigbinde Oluwanisola AkanjiMohammad Yasir EssarShoaib AhmadUzzam Ahmed KhawajaNatália Cruz MartinsGaber El-Saber BatihaPublished in: Environmental science and pollution research international (2021)
Nearly two-thirds of migrants residing in camps in Europe are women and children. Many of these children, being born on the way without essential newborns screening, are at some point admitted to pediatric wards in asylum countries. With hospitals overwhelmed with COVID-19 cases, taking appropriate care of newborns becomes a considerable burden. In this frame, prevention, in the form of adequate newborn screening, emerges as a better and more feasible strategy than healing.
Keyphrases
- healthcare
- low birth weight
- gestational age
- young adults
- pregnant women
- public health
- coronavirus disease
- sars cov
- polycystic ovary syndrome
- mental health
- type diabetes
- quality improvement
- gene expression
- preterm infants
- preterm birth
- metabolic syndrome
- pregnancy outcomes
- pain management
- chronic pain
- social media
- dna methylation
- transcription factor
- bioinformatics analysis
- respiratory syndrome coronavirus