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SUBMITTER: Bauhoff S
PROVIDER: S-EPMC5967831 | biostudies-literature | 2018
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
PloS one 20180524 5
In the wake of the European refugee crisis, Germany has received over a million new applications for asylum in the last two years. The health care system is struggling to provide asylum-seekers with access to essential medical services and facilitate their longer-term integration. In this article, we report on the morbidity, utilization and costs of care for a sample of asylum-seekers as compared to a matched group of regularly insured. Using administrative data, we found that asylum-seekers had ...[more]