Browse by subject "Population migration and health"
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Commentary: Migration and health—what about those who stay at home?
The paper by Burazeri et al. is useful for two reasons. First, it draws attention to a largely neglected aspect of migration—health of those who stay at home. And second, it contributes to the enduring debate about the contribution of material and non-material (psychosocial) factors to health. We will discuss these two issues in turn.
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| Author | Martin Bobak and Arjan Gjonca |
| Type | Document |
| Subject | Population migration and health |
| Tags | Commentary |
| Rights | Published by Oxford University Press on behalf of the International Epidemiological Association (c) The Author 2007; all rights reserved. |
European Research on Migration and Health
This paper reviews the different kinds of research that are required in order ti identify, analyse and remedy problems in the field of migrant health.
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| Type | Paper |
| Subject | Population migration and health |
| Tags | International Organization for Migration IOM Background Paper |
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Full recordGood practice in health care for migrants: views and experiences of care professionals in 16 European countries
From the abstract:
Methods: During this study, structured interviews with open questions and case vignettes were conducted with health care professionals working in areas with high proportion of migrant populations in 16 countries. Answers were analysed using thematic content analysis.
Conclusions: Health care professionals in different services experience similar difficulties when providing care to migrants. They also have relatively consistent views on what constitutes good practice. The degree to which these components already are part of routine practice varies. Implementing good practice requires sufficient resources and organisational flexibility, positive attitudes, training for staff and the provision of information.
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| Author | Stefan Priebe1*, Sima Sandhu1, Sónia Dias2, Andrea Gaddini3, Tim Greacen4, Elisabeth Ioannidis5, Ulrike Kluge6, Allan Krasnik7, Majda Lamkaddem8, Vincent Lorant9, Rosa Puigpinósi Riera10, Attila Sarvary11, Joaquim JF Soares12, Mindaugas Stankunas13, Chris |
| Type | Article |
| Subject | Population migration and health |
| Tags | https://www.nottingham.ac.uk/healthsciences/globalhealth/browse/list_titles/tag/466 |
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Health and foreign policy: influences of migration and population mobility
Abstract
International interest in the relationship between globalization and health is growing, and this relationship is increasingly figuring in foreign policy discussions. Although many globalizing processes are known to affect health, migration stands out as an integral part of globalization, and links between migration and health are well documented. Numerous historical interconnections exist between population mobility and global public health, but since the 1990s new attention to emerging and re-emerging infectious diseases has promoted discussion of this topic. The containment of global disease threats is a major concern, and significant international efforts have received funding to fight infectious diseases such as malaria, tuberculosis and HIV/AIDS (human immunodeficiency virus/acquired immune deficiency syndrome). Migration and population mobility play a role in each of these public health challenges. The growing interest in population mobility’s health-related influences is giving rise to new foreign policy initiatives to address the international determinants of health within the context of migration. As a result, meeting health challenges through international cooperation and collaboration has now become an important foreign policy component in many countries. However, although some national and regional projects address health and migration, an integrated and globally focused approach is lacking. As migration and population mobility are increasingly important determinants of health, these issues will require greater policy attention at the multilateral level.
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| Author | Douglas W MacPherson,corresponding author Brian D Gushulak and Liane Macdonald |
| Type | Article |
| Subject | Population migration and health |
| Tags | https://www.nottingham.ac.uk/healthsciences/globalhealth/browse/list_titles/tag/466 |
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Health Consequences of Population Changes in Asia: What Are the Issues?
This report is part of an ongoing process that will help the MetaCentre and scholars of the region better understand the important research questions which address health and population change in the Asian context. It developed from discussions that took place during a two-day workshop, entitled “Health Consequences of Population Changes in Asia: What are the Issues,” held in conjunction with the First IUSSP Southeast Asia Regional Conference, in Bangkok, Thailand, 13-4 June, 2002. The workshop was organized by the MetaCentre with support from the Wellcome Trust. The workshop brought together regional experts from a variety of disciplines to discuss the important issues related to population change and health and possible approaches toward addressing these issues.
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| Type | Paper |
| Subject | Population growth Population migration and health Urbanisation |
| Tags | ASIAN METACENTRE RESEARCH PAPER SERIES no. 6 ASIAN METACENTRE RESEARCH PAPER SERIES |
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Health crises and migration
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Individual and collective responses to health crises contribute to an orderly public health response that most times precludes the need for large-scale displacements. Restricting population movement is a largely ineffective way of containing disease, yet governments sometimes resort to it where health crises emerge.
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| Author | Michael Edelstein, David Heymann and Khalid Koser |
| Type | Article |
| Subject | Population migration and health |
| Tags | https://www.nottingham.ac.uk/healthsciences/globalhealth/browse/list_titles/tag/466 |
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Health effects of migration
ABSTRACT
The proportion of citizens with an ethnic minority background in Denmark is rising and considerations about how to adapt health care services to the needs of this part of the population are becoming increasingly relevant. To do this, knowledge is needed about the factors influencing the health of these population groups. Migration is one of these factors.The process of migration influences the somatic and mental healthof migrants and is described in this article. Ethnicity, social position and aspects related to communication also influence migrants’ health; however, we do not discuss these factors [1].
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| Author | Maria Kristiansen, Research Assistant, Anna Mygind Research Assistant & Allan Krasnik, Professor |
| Type | Article |
| Subject | Population migration and health |
| Tags | Denmark |
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Health Vulnerabilities Study of Mixed Migration Flows from the East and Horn of Africa and the Great Lakes Region to Southern Africa
The study is designed to be conducted in two stages. Completed between October and December 2012, the first stage – the formative stage – had two objectives: 1) to update the findings of the 2009 study and 2) to collect information and identify “spaces of vulnerability”2 through a desk review and verification visits to five transit countries. The second stage – a detailed field study – will be conducted within the first six months of 2013.
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| Type | Document |
| Subject | Population migration and health |
| Tags | International Organization for Migration IOM |
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Human rights and the national interest: migrants, healthcare and social justice
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The UK government has recently taken steps to exclude certain groups of migrants from free treatment under the National Health Service, most controversially from treatment for HIV. Whether this discrimination can have any coherent ethical basis is questioned in this paper. The exclusion of migrants of any status from any welfare system cannot be ethically justified because the distinction between citizens and migrants cannot be an ethical one.
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| Author | Phillip Cole |
| Type | Article |
| Subject | Population migration and health Social justice, human rights and health |
| Tags | https://www.nottingham.ac.uk/healthsciences/globalhealth/browse/list_titles/tag/466 |
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Impact of migration on the consumption of education and children’s services and the consumption of health services, social care and social services
Aims
The main aims of the study were to estimate migrants? consumption of under-18 education, health and personal social services and the related costs and to assess the implications for UK immigration policy, particularly for the Points Based System (PBS). The study also aimed to identify the limitations to evaluating the impact and the potential for improving measurement. Given the interest in the PBS, the focus was non-EEA economic migrants (especially Tier 1 and 2 migrants2) and Tier 4 migrants (students). The aim was to provide both national and, where possible, sub-national estimates of impact.
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| Author | Anitha George, Pamela Meadows, Hilary Metcalf and Heather Rolfe |
| Type | Document |
| Subject | Population migration and health |
| Tags | UK National Institute of Economic and Social Research Migration Advisory Committee |
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International migration and health
This paper takes into account the fact that as people begin to move in greater numbers, more rapidly and across wider ecological spaces, the opportunities for migration of all kinds to affect health in increasingly complex ways will become more evident. As it does, the biomedical and bio-psychosocial dimensions of migration will possibly pose new and more difficult challenges to those who move, those they leave behind and those who host them in receiving societies. The paper also considers some of the factors involved in this emerging equation, including the social and health conditions that help to determine the character of migration and post-migration settlement. It looks at some of the main policy dimensions and implications associated with the migration-health nexus and while it does not attempt to address internal or forced migration, it recognises that both these types of movement have grown massively over the course of the last half century, and in their own way are also creating new health challenges.
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| Author | Manuel Carballo and Mourtala Mboup |
| Type | Paper |
| Subject | Population migration and health |
| Tags | Policy Analysis and Research Programme of the Global Commission on International Migration Global Commission on International Migration |
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International Organization for Migration (IOM)
IOM's Vision on Migration Health
Migrants and mobile populations benefit from an improved standard of physical, mental and social wellbeing, which enables them to substantially contribute towards the social and economic development of their home communities and host societies.
IOM’s Strategic Objectives on Migration Health
IOM’s strategic objectives on migration health are derived from the 2008 World Health Assembly Resolution on the Health of Migrants (61.17) that recommends action along four pillars. These four pillars have been further operationalized and agreed during the Global Consultation on the Health of Migrants organized by WHO, IOM and the Government of Spain (Madrid, 2010):
Monitoring migrant health
Enable conducive policy and legal frameworks on migrant health
Strengthen migrant friendly health systems
Facilitate partnerships, networks and multi-country frameworks on migrant health
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| Type | Website |
| Subject | Population migration and health |
| Tags | https://www.nottingham.ac.uk/healthsciences/globalhealth/browse/list_titles/tag/466 |
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Migration and Health
A factsheet about migration and health, produced by the Migration and Health Research Center (MAHRC).
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| Type | Document |
| Subject | Population migration and health |
| Tags | https://www.nottingham.ac.uk/healthsciences/globalhealth/browse/list_titles/tag/466 |
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Migration and Health: Challenges of Population Mobility UC Global Health Institute
Video lasting 58minutes featurung Whitney L. Duncan, UC San Diego, exploring mental health and migration in a changing Oaxaca with a view from the psychiatric hospital. Margaret Handley, UCSF, looks at navigating the slipstream of changing food environments through a binational perspectives on dietary behaviors and implications for nutrition counseling. And, Micah Gell-Redman, UC San Diego, addresses politics, borders and risk. (#20616)
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| Type | Video |
| Subject | Population migration and health |
| Tags | University of California |
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Migration and Health: Latinos in the United States
This document comprises four chapters. The first describes the scope, trends, and characteristics of Latin American, and particularly Mexican, migration to the United States. There the data are available, it also refers to Latin American countries that take part in ISA, activities: Guatemala, El Salvador, Honduras, Nicaragua, Colombia and Ecuador. The second analyzes immigrants' health insurance coverage and level their level of access to various types of medical security. The third describes the health service access and use. The last describes specific aspects of migrants' health, including the main illnesses affecting them. The document ends with a number of considerations and opportunities in the field of binational public policy.
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| Type | Document |
| Subject | Population migration and health |
| Tags | https://www.nottingham.ac.uk/healthsciences/globalhealth/browse/list_titles/tag/466 |
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Migration: A Social Determinant of the Health of Migrants
This paper examines the relationship between migration and health from a human-rights and social equity based perspective. I discusses how migration can itself be seen as a determinant of migrants' health.
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| Type | Website |
| Subject | Population migration and health |
| Tags | IOM |
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The basic principles of migration health: Population mobility and gaps in disease prevalence Brian D Gushulak1 and Douglas W
Abstract
Currently, migrants and other mobile individuals, such as migrant workers and asylum seekers, are an expanding global population of growing social, demographic and political importance. Disparities often exist between a migrant population's place of origin and its destination, particularly with relation to health determinants. The effects of those disparities can be observed at both individual and population levels. Migration across health and disease disparities influences the epidemiology of certain diseases globally and in nations receiving migrants. While specific disease-based outcomes may vary between migrant group and location, general epidemiological principles may be applied to any situation where numbers of individuals move between differences in disease prevalence. Traditionally, migration health activities have been designed for national application and lack an integrated international perspective. Present and future health challenges related to migration may be more effectively addressed through collaborative global undertakings. This paper reviews the epidemiological relationships resulting from health disparities bridged by migration and describes the growing role of migration and population mobility in global disease epidemiology. The implications for national and international health policy and program planning are presented.
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| Author | Brian D Gushulak and Douglas W MacPherson |
| Type | Website |
| Subject | Population migration and health |
| Tags | Emerging Themes in Epidemiology Review |
| Rights | Open Access |
The Center of Expertise on Migration and Health
The Center of Expertise on Migration and Health will be the first multidisciplinary, university-based program in the world devoted to systematically studying the health consequences of international population movements and developing more effective strategies to address them.
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| Type | Website |
| Subject | Population migration and health |
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The Population Council: Research topic: Urbanization, Migration, and Climate Change
The Population Council is studying the interaction between increased urbanization and climate change. We are using geographic information system (GIS) software to map and forecast populations at risk of extreme weather events. And we are gathering data on the effects of migration on mobile populations, particularly adolescent girls.
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| Type | Website |
| Subject | Climate change and sustainability Population migration and health Urbanisation |
| Tags | https://www.nottingham.ac.uk/healthsciences/globalhealth/browse/list_titles/tag/466 |
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United Nations Population Facts Department of Economic and Social Affairs • Population Division
Factsheet produced by the United Nations about population, focussing on Health Workers, International Migration and Development.
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| Type | Document |
| Subject | Population growth Population migration and health |
| Tags | factsheet fact sheet |
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Worldwide Universities Network: Public Health (Non-communicable Disease)
The focus of the WUN Public Health Global Challenge in 2014-15 is on:
- Health of family and migrants across the life course
- The resilience of adolescents in different cultural contexts
- Schools as a setting for reducing risk factors associated with NCDs
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| Type | Website |
| Subject | Child health Non-communicable diseases Population migration and health |
| Tags | https://www.nottingham.ac.uk/healthsciences/globalhealth/browse/list_titles/tag/466 |
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