Immigrant health, our health.

[familial mediterranean fever]

This final chapter reviews the main conclusions reached by the Special Issue articles in the areas of EUNAM (EU and North African Migrants : Health and Health Systems ) activities , covering well-being , health status , disease panorama and use of health services of immigrants to the EU . The reviewed chapters show that immigrants are a vulnerable population experiencing , in some aspects , discrimination and hardship similar to the socially weakest national population groups . Immigration has changed the disease spectrum , particularly in infectious diseases and recessive conditions such as sickle cell disease and familial Mediterranean fever . Importantly , health questions of immigrants can not be separated from those of any human health issues . An imminent new immigrant question for the EU will be the massive internal migration . Although the overall disease spectrum may not be vastly different between EU countries , the internal migrants will be exposed to lifestyle-dependent ill health and diseases probably in a similar way as did migrants from outside Europe . Migrant health research requires dedicated funding , which needs to come from central EU sources because multiple nationalities are involved . This funding should be able to project the course of health from the country of origin to the country of destination and back again , which was one of guidelines in the funding that initiated EUNAM .

Diseases
Validation

Diseases presenting "fever" symptom

22q11.2 deletion syndrome

acute rheumatic fever

alexander disease

allergic bronchopulmonary aspergillosis

canavan disease

carcinoma of the gallbladder

child syndrome

congenital toxoplasmosis

cushing syndrome

cystinuria

dracunculiasis

erdheim-chester disease

esophageal adenocarcinoma

esophageal carcinoma

familial mediterranean fever

focal myositis

hodgkin lymphoma, classical

lamellar ichthyosis

legionellosis

locked-in syndrome

malignant atrophic papulosis

neonatal adrenoleukodystrophy

neuralgic amyotrophy

oculocutaneous albinism

papillon-lefèvre syndrome

pyomyositis

pyruvate dehydrogenase deficiency

scrub typhus

severe combined immunodeficiency

sneddon syndrome

systemic capillary leak syndrome

triple a syndrome

typhoid

waldenström macroglobulinemia

wolf-hirschhorn syndrome

This symptom has already been validated