Hungary: Assessing Health-System Capacity to Manage Sudden, Large Influxes of Migrants

World Health Organization, Regional Office for Europe. 08/22/2016 This 36-page document reports on Hungary ' s large influxes of refugees, asylum seeks, and migrants who crossed the Hungarian border prior to border access legislation in 2015. The Hungarian Government requested the World Health Organization Regional Office for Europe to apply the Public Health Aspects of Migration in Europe (PHAME) toolkit to examine Hungary ' s capacity to respond in the acute phase to the public health needs and challenges of large influxes of refugees, asylum seekers, and migrants. The report provides findings and recommendations of this assessment. (PDF)

Source: Disaster Lit: Resource Guide for Disaster Medicine and Public Health - November 21, 2016 Category: Global & Universal Authors: The U.S. National Library of Medicine Source Type: news