Impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on incident diagnoses in German refugee centres 2018 to 2023
The COVID-19 pandemic may have affected morbidity patterns of residents in refugee centres, but empirical evidence is scarce. We utilised linked data from a health surveillance network in refugee centres of three German federal states, employing a quasi-experimental design to examine the effects of...
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24 July 2025
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Nature Communications
Year: 2025, Volume: 16, Pages: 1-16 |
| ISSN: | 2041-1723 |
| DOI: | 10.1038/s41467-025-61876-x |
| Online Access: | Verlag, kostenfrei, Volltext: https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-025-61876-x Verlag, kostenfrei, Volltext: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-025-61876-x 
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| Author Notes: | Kayvan Bozorgmehr, Stella Erdmann, Sven Rohleder, Consortium Pri.CareNet and Rosa Jahn |
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