The policy statements are designed to influence and determine decisions and actions within the scope of coverage. The EASL Policy Statements are related to the burden of liver disease in Europe. They aim to describe the epidemiology and analysis of risk factors to identify the best public health interventions that could impact these risk factors to reduce the burden of liver disease.
The current system of providing healthcare to asylum seekers and migrants is failing, resulting in unnecessary prevalence of liver disease, infection with hepatitis viruses and alcohol abuse.
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Viral hepatitis is an inflammatory condition of the liver and the7th most frequent cause of death in the world, surpassing HIV
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