Health monitoring of refugees in reception centres for asylum seekers

• Verfasst von: Jahn, Rosa [VerfasserIn]
• Verfasst von: Rohleder, Sven [VerfasserIn]
• Verfasst von: Qreini, Markus [VerfasserIn]
• Verfasst von: Erdmann, Stella [VerfasserIn]
• Verfasst von: Kaur, Sukhvir [VerfasserIn]
• Verfasst von: Aluttis, Frank [VerfasserIn]
• Verfasst von: Bozorgmehr, Kayvan [VerfasserIn]
• Titel: Health monitoring of refugees in reception centres for asylum seekers
• Titelzusatz: decentralized surveillance network for the analysis of routine medical data
• Verf.angabe: Rosa Jahn, Sven Rohleder, Markus Qreini, Stella Erdmann, Sukhvir Kaur, Frank Aluttis, Kayvan Bozorgmehr
• E-Jahr: 2021
• Jahr: 31.03.2021
• Umfang: 23 S.
• Fussnoten: Published 31.03.2021 ; Gesehen am 20.06.2023
• Titel Quelle: Enthalten in: Journal of health monitoring
• Ort Quelle: Berlin : Robert Koch-Institut, 2016
• Jahr Quelle: 2021
• Band/Heft Quelle: 6(2021), 1, Seite 30-52
• ISSN Quelle: 2511-2708
• DOI: doi:10.25646/7865
• Datenträger: Online-Ressource
• Sprache: eng
• Sach-SW: 610 Medizin und Gesundheit
• Sach-SW: Asylum
• Sach-SW: Distributed Computing
• Sach-SW: Forced Displacement
• Sach-SW: FOS: Computer and information sciences
• Sach-SW: Health Monitoring
• Sach-SW: Migration
• Sach-SW: Surveillance
• K10plus-PPN: 1850650551

Abstract

Refugees and asylum seekers living in reception centres tend to be not adequately included in population-based studies, routine medical data and official statistics. As part of the research project ‘Health and primary-care sentinel surveillance in reception- and accommodation-centres for asylum-seekers in Germany’ (PriCare), a health-monitoring approach was developed for the secondary use of routine medical data from on-site outpatient clinics in reception centres. To this end, a software application (Refugee Care Manager, RefCare©) for the digitisation and harmonisation of medical records was designed and implemented in reception centres in three German federal states. The approach of distributed computing in a surveillance network allows for the decentralised, harmonised analysis of the routine medical data stored in RefCare© in a manner that fully complies with data protection regulations and circumvents the need for centralised data storage. RefCare© provides an integrated surveillance feature that enables analyses of 64 indicators on population, morbidity, healthcare processes and quality of care to be undertaken across multiple facilities. This article describes the conceptual and practical approach and the technical procedures put in place to do so, and provides examples of the results that have been gained so far.