Health promotion strategies toward improved healthcare access for migrants and refugees in Europe: MyHealth recommendations.

MyHealth European project (2017-2020) was committed to elaborate on models to engage vulnerable migrants and refugees (VMR) in their health through community involvement. Low healthcare access and poor quality of healthcare services for VMR is a common reality in many European countries. The purpose of the present study, as part of MyHealth project, was the development of an agenda for actions and consequent recommendations to tackle the issue.

A Cross-Sectional Survey on Professionals to Assess Health Needs of Newly Arrived Migrants in Spain.

Heightened conflicts and lack of safety due to reasons related to economic, social, ethnic, religious, sexual orientation, political, or nationality matters have increased migratory movements during the last, few decades. Unfortunately, when migrants arrive in new territories, they can face many barriers. For example, in Spain, some migrants have difficulties in accessing health services.

Safe exposure times for slit-lamp fundus biomicroscopy with high plus lenses.

Purpose: The purpose of this study was to calculate the retinal irradiance and maximum permissible exposure time (MPE) using high plus fundus biomicroscopy lenses.

Methods: Four Volk handheld condensing lenses (+78 D, +90 D, Superfield NC, and Super 66) were tested with biomicroscopes from three manufacturers (Nikon, Topcon, and Zeiss) on both high and medium illumination. Using the conservation of radiance theorem, the retinal irradiance was calculated and.

Clinical quality assessment using computer monitor photoimages of optic nerve head cupping.

Background: Photo documentation (color slides) of abnormal optic nerve heads enable the clinician to accurately access or estimate the percentage of the optic nerve cupping to quantify the progression of glaucoma. The purpose of this study is to compare cupping estimations using digital images on a computer monitor to those using standard color slides.

Methods: Ten sets of stereo optic nerve head photos from six glaucoma suspects were used in this study.