Unconventional Answers to Unprecedented Challenges: The Swedish Experience During the COVID-19 Outbreak

Unconventional Answers to Unprecedented Challenges: The Swedish Experience During the COVID-19 Outbreak

Giuseppe Valeriani, Iris Sarajlic Vukovic, Richard Mollica

Since its early stages, the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic has posed immense challenges in meeting the public health and healthcare and social care needs of migrants. In line with other reports from United Kingdom and United States, data from Sweden’s health authority show that migrants have been disproportionately affected by COVID-19. Following the World Health Organization’s statements, as well as the European Public Health Association’s call for action, several centres in Sweden’s most populated areas have activated tools to implement national plans for community outreach through initiatives targeting migrants and ethnic minority groups. Unconventional means should be promoted to mitigate the impact of COVID-19 on migrants and the health of the public at large.

2020

covid-19, telemedicine, migrants, health care delivery, community health

10.3961/jpmph.20.235

Journal of Preventive Medicine and Public Health

Korean Society for Preventive Medicine

Medicine, Public aspects of medicine