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42. Jahrestagung der Gesellschaft für Tropenpädiatrie und Internationale Kindergesundheit

Gesellschaft für Tropenpädiatrie und Internationale Kindergesundheit e. V.

12.04. - 14.04.2024, Eisenach

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Health services for migrant and refugee children with NCDs and disabilities in Freiburg, Germany

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  • presenting/speaker Benedikt Spielberger - Division of Pediatric Infectious Diseases and Rheumatology, Center for Pediatrics and Adolescent Medicine, Medical Center, University of Freiburg, Germany

Gesellschaft für Tropenpädiatrie & Internationale Kindergesundheit. 42. Jahrestagung der Gesellschaft für Tropenpädiatrie und Internationale Kindergesundheit. Eisenach, 12.-14.04.2024. Düsseldorf: German Medical Science GMS Publishing House; 2024. DocL16

doi: 10.3205/24gtp13, urn:nbn:de:0183-24gtp139

Published: November 4, 2024

© 2024 Spielberger.
This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License. See license information at http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/.

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Care for children with special needs and/or non-communicable diseases in conjunction with language barriers can be very challenging. The university medical center Freiburg established a pediatric outpatient clinic in a refugee shelter to identify those children early upon arrival in Germany and to facilitate provision of adequate treatment.