TY  - JOUR
AU  - Georges, Daniela
AU  - Buber-Ennser, Isabella
AU  - Rengs, Bernhard
AU  - Kohlenberger, Judith
AU  - Doblhammer-Reiter, Gabriele
TI  - Health determinants among refugees in Austria and Germany: A propensity-matched comparative study for Syrian, Afghan, and Iraqi refugees.
JO  - PLOS ONE
VL  - 16
IS  - 4
SN  - 1932-6203
CY  - San Francisco, California, US
PB  - PLOS
M1  - DZNE-2021-01254
SP  - e0250821
PY  - 2021
N1  - CC BY
AB  - In recent years, Germany and Austria have been among the leading European receiving countries for asylum seekers and refugees (AS</td><td width="150">
AB  - R). The two countries have cultural and economic similarities, but differ, for example, in their health care systems, with AS</td><td width="150">
AB  - R having unrestricted access to health services upon arrival in Austria, but not in Germany. This study investigates the determinants of health among refugees in Austria and Germany, and how these determinants differ between the two countries. We analyze comparable and harmonized survey data from both countries for Syrian, Afghan, and Iraqi nationals aged 18 to 59 years who had immigrated between 2013 and 2016 (Germany: n = 2,854; Austria: n = 374). The study adopts a cross-sectional design, and uses propensity score matching to examine comparable AS</td><td width="150">
AB  - R in the two receiving countries. The results reveal that the AS</td><td width="150">
AB  - R in Germany (72
KW  - Adult
KW  - Afghanistan
KW  - Age Factors
KW  - Austria: ethnology
KW  - Cross-Sectional Studies
KW  - Educational Status
KW  - Female
KW  - Germany: ethnology
KW  - Health Policy
KW  - Health Services Accessibility: statistics & numerical data
KW  - Health Status
KW  - Humans
KW  - Iraq
KW  - Male
KW  - Middle Aged
KW  - Propensity Score
KW  - Refugees: classification
KW  - Refugees: statistics & numerical data
KW  - Syria
KW  - Young Adult
LB  - PUB:(DE-HGF)16
C6  - pmid:33909696
C2  - pmc:PMC8081210
DO  - DOI:10.1371/journal.pone.0250821
UR  - https://pub.dzne.de/record/157797
ER  -