Global public goods: it is defined as goods and services whose benefits or harms exceed national borders and affect countries located in more than one geographical region and even the whole world, that not competition and exclusion in their consumption, and extending to future generations as well as the present generation. One of these goods is health. Pandemic, which is a global problem, emerges when the infectious diseases emerging in the countries go beyond the borders of the country and spread to other countries. The countries of the world have faced many epidemic diseases from past to present. Diseases such as Ebola, plague, polio, H1N1 and Zika are some of these epidemics. The last epidemic we have witnessed is COVID-19. The COVID-19 pandemic has seriously affected all countries of the world with the effect of globalization. Along with the health sector, there are difficulties in many different sectors, because countries have implemented various policies to control the pandemic, and the main purpose has been to reduce the risk of contamination by restricting people's movement. Although the measures taken are successful in controlling the pandemic, there are negative economic consequences. In this context, it is observed that the macroeconomic indicators of many countries have changed negatively. Another dimension of the COVID-19 process, which causes serious problems all over the world, is the refugees’ conditions. In a globalizing world, the refugee problem is a global public bad, and providing protection to refugees in order to solve this problem is also a global public good. In this sense, it is necessary to pay attention to the living conditions of refugees in the measures taken regarding COVID-19. Around 20 million people around the world have left their homes due to war, violence or oppression in their country and continue their lives as refugees. Refugees face a series of difficulties following their asylum in various countries. Language barriers, difficulty in accessing information, sociocultural differences, close contact with people and inadequate access to health services are some of these difficulties. With these difficulties, refugees already live in overcrowded environments without access to basic health care. Conditions such as lack of clean water and soap, insufficient health personnel, overcrowding and malnutrition are the problems experienced in refugee camps. At the same time, it is not possible to comply with social distance in the camps. In this context, refugees who encounter various difficulties even under normal conditions are more likely to become more vulnerable due to COVID-19, and the risk of contracting COVID-19 disease in refugee camps increases. Apart from refugees, the COVID-19 pandemic also negatively affects asylum seekers, forced migrants, illegal immigrants and the homeless, because these people live in environments with a high risk of contracting an epidemic disease. Their access to cleaning and basic living supplies is limited, or in some cases non-existent. Due to overcrowded prisons, poor health conditions, inadequate health care and lack of social distancing, the virus can spread easily among these people. Within this scope, although aid is provided by various organizations to protect refugees, asylum seekers and forced migrants from the pandemic, it can be said that these aids are not very sufficient. Since it is not possible to prevent diseases without considering the health of everyone in the society, measures should be taken to cover the whole society in the actions to be carried out to prevent COVID-19. Among these measures, refugees and immigrants should not be ignored. In the ongoing pandemic, no one is immune, including these vulnerable groups. Therefore, special measures should be taken to slow down and prevent the spread of the epidemic, including refugees and migrants. Since there can be no public health without refugee and migrant health, they must be included in national public health systems. It should be ensured that the information requested to reach the public about the epidemic reaches these groups by removing the language barriers. If measures are not taken to improve camp conditions, it is likely that COVID-19 will emerge in the camps and spread very quickly. For this reason, if the pandemic is to be prevented, an approach that will include refugees and migrants is needed.
