The Roma are Europe’s largest minority. They are also one of its most disadvantaged, with low levels of education and health and high levels of poverty. Research on Roma health often reveals higher burdens of disease in the communities studied. This paper aims to review the literature on communicable diseases among Roma across Eastern and Central Europe. A PubMed search was carried out for communicable diseases among Roma in these parts of Europe, specifically in Romania, Bulgaria, Hungary, Serbia, Slovakia, the Czech Republic and North Macedonia. The papers were then screened for relevance and utility. Nineteen papers were selected for review; most of them from Slovakia. Roma continue to have a higher prevalence of communicable diseases and are at higher risk of infection than the majority populations of the countries they live in. Roma children in particular have a particularly high prevalence of parasitic disease. However, these differences in disease prevalence are not present across all diseases and all populations. For example, when Roma are compared to non-Roma living in close proximity to them, these differences are often no longer significant.

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罗姆人健康：东欧和中欧传染病概述

罗姆人是欧洲最大的少数民族。他们也是其最弱势群体之一，教育和卫生水平低下，贫困程度高。对罗姆人健康的研究通常揭示出所研究社区的疾病负担更高。本文旨在回顾东欧和中欧罗姆人之间的传染病文献。在欧洲的这些地区，特别是在罗马尼亚，保加利亚，匈牙利，塞尔维亚，斯洛伐克，捷克共和国和北马其顿，对罗姆人之间的传染病进行了PubMed搜索。然后筛选这些文件的相关性和实用性。选择了19篇论文进行审查；他们大多数来自斯洛伐克。罗姆人仍然比其所居住国家的大多数人口具有更高的传染病流行率和更高的感染风险。特别是罗姆族儿童的寄生虫病患病率特别高。但是，并非在所有疾病和所有人群中都存在这些疾病患病率的差异。例如，将罗姆人与生活在他们附近的非罗姆人进行比较时，这些差异通常不再重要。