The exposure of refugees and migrants to the risks associated with population movements – psychosocial disorders, reproductive health problems, higher newborn mortality, nutrition disorders, drug abuse, alcoholism and exposure to violence – increase their vulnerability to both communicable and the infectious diseases. The key issue with regard to the infectious diseases is the interruption of care, due either to lack of access or to the decimation of health care systems; displacement causes interruption of the continuous treatment that is crucial for chronic conditions. The vulnerable individuals, especially children, could be infected with infectious vector-borne diseases because of poor living conditions, suboptimal hygiene, and deprivation during migration. Consequently, the vision of the here proposed project is creating a training program in Europe notably Turkey in order to prevent the infectious vector-borne diseases which are associated with increased immigration and especially caused by reducing hygiene. Considering that healthcare personnel availability depends on different factors such as the size of the centre, number of people living in the centre, the geographical isolation of the centre and funding availability, the concrete project objectives, referring to the vision above, are; -providing an opportunity to enhance the overview of what EU and the candidate states of EU do, their impact, and other key statistics of the needs of migrants, in order to provide a global picture of migration. -constituting a stronger knowledge base on migration, including through global research on needs, trends and other common factors of migrants, -providing an opportunity to further share learning across regions while sharing of learning occurs through national border networks -improving the skills and knowledge of the trainers who service to solve or reduce the public health issues through more scientific view and understanding, -making a contribution to social integration among the migrants and host societies across Europe. Since the main goal of the project is creating a training program in Europe notably Turkey in order to prevent the infectious vector-borne diseases which are associated with increased immigration, the project should be carried out transnationally.
Migration is one of the most important social phenomena when its effects and consequences are considered all over the world. It should be evaluated multidimensionally in terms of its causes and consequences. Not only immigrants and/or refugees, but also settled communities in the place of migration are affected by the migration situation. The European Union (EU), as an economically and socially populated region, is seen as a way of salvation for immigrants and/or refugees from underdeveloped countries where political conflict and war have arisen. Since the outbreak of the civil war in March 2011, an estimated 11 million Syrians have left their homes and many have sought refuge in neighboring countries. According to the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR), 4.8 million people have moved to Turkey, Lebanon, Jordan, Egypt and Iraq. Meanwhile, nearly one million people sought asylum in Europe. The EU's top receiving countries were Germany with more than 300,000 cumulative applications and Sweden with more than 100,000 cumulative applications. When we look at the countries involved in the project as partners, 16,623 people immigrated to Slovenia in 2016 and the number of immigrants was 8% higher than in 2015. On the other hand, Italy is among the top ten countries where 4.1% of the total refugees in the world came in 2015. Population movements of refugees and immigrants increase their vulnerability to communicable diseases due to their victimization (psychosocial disorders, reproductive health problems, higher newborn deaths, nutritional disorders, drug use, alcoholism and exposure to violence). Migration causes interruption of continued treatment, which is crucial for chronic conditions. Vulnerable individuals, especially children, can contract infectious vector-borne diseases during migration due to poor living conditions and poor hygiene. This project aims to establish a training program in Europe, especially in Turkey, for the prevention of infectious vector-borne diseases associated with increased migration, especially due to lack of hygiene. In order to fulfill this aim, the project was carried out transnationally. The objectives of the project are; - Developing an overview of what the EU and EU candidate countries are doing, its impact and other important statistics on the needs of migrants to understand the global impact of migration; - Building a stronger knowledge base on migration, including global research on migrants' needs, trends and other common factors, - provide an opportunity to further share learning between regions, while sharing of learning takes place through national border networks; - To develop the knowledge and skills of educators who serve to solve or reduce public health problems with a more scientific view and understanding, - Contributing to social integration between migrants and host communities across Europe. In line with these aims and objectives; - Determining the level of infectious vector-borne diseases caused by migration and lack of hygiene in Turkey and project partner countries, - Performing needs analysis with literature review, - Documenting the results of the needs analysis and sharing them with the stakeholders, - Designing the purpose, learning objectives, content, measurement and evaluation method of the education program to be developed for adults on vector-borne diseases and developing educational materials for this, - Implementation of trainer training to provide training skills to the trainers who will provide these trainings, - Testing the success of trainer training, - Providing adult education to migrant adults to prevent vector-borne diseases, - Testing of adult education, - Making dissemination activities, - Preparation of intellectual outputs, activities were carried out. In addition, a website was developed in order to increase the awareness of the project subject in the society. The events were shared on social media.