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On the Economic Geography of International Migration [PDF]

The World Economy, 2015
AbstractWe exploit the bilateral and skill dimensions from recent data sets of international migration to test for the existence of Zipf's and Gibrat's laws in the context of aggregate and high‐skilled international immigration and emigration using graphical, parametric and non‐parametric analysis.
Ozden, Caglar, Parsons, Christopher
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Improving health services to displaced persons in Aceh, Indonesia: a balanced scorecard

Bulletin of the World Health Organization
PROBLEM: After the Indian Ocean tsunami in December 2004, the International Organization for Migration constructed temporary health clinics to provide medical services to survivors living in temporary accommodation centres throughout Aceh, Indonesia ...
Grace J Chan, Kristin B Parco, Melva E Sihombing, Susan P Tredwell, Edward J O'Rourke   +4 more
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Health issues affecting female internal migrant workers: A systematic review

Journal of the College of Community Physicians, 2016
Background Economic contribution by internal migrant workers, in particular the workers in Export Processing Zones (EPZ) in Sri Lanka, is well recognized, yet the social and health consequences are unknown.Objective To systematically review the health ...
Upul Senarath, Kolitha Wickramage, Sharika Peiris   +2 more
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Internal borders and migration in India* [PDF]

Journal of Economic Geography, 2017
Internal mobility is a critical component of economic growth and development, as it enables the reallocation of labor to more productive opportunities across sectors and regions. Using detailed district-to-district migration data from the 2001 Census of India, the paper highlights the role of state borders as significant impediments to internal ...
Zovanga L. Kone, Maggie Y. Liu, Aaditya Mattoo, Caglar Ozden, Siddharth Sharma, Aaditya Mattoo   +5 more
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IMPACT OF MIGRATION ON TUBERCULOSIS AND HIV EPIDEMIC SITUATION IN RUSSIA

Туберкулез и болезни лёгких, 2015
The growing changes in migration and mobility of the population in Russia require additional study of the epidemic situation related to infectious diseases and evaluation of preparedness of specialized medical services and existing resources of the ...
O. B. Nechaeva, I. E. Kazanets, B. I. Sergeev   +2 more
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Migrant arrivals and deaths in the Mediterranean: what do the data really tell us?

Forced Migration Review, 2016
The policy and media gaze focuses on numbers of migrant arrivals and deaths. There are problems in the data for both categories.
Frank Laczko, Ann Singleton, Tara Brian , Marzia Rango   +3 more
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“We have a lot of home deliveries” A qualitative study on the impact of COVID-19 on access to and utilization of reproductive, maternal, newborn and child health care among refugee women in urban Eastleigh, Kenya

Journal of Migration and Health, 2020
Background: Little is known about how pregnant refugee women, and the frontline health care workers who serve them, are affected by the COVID-19 pandemic in terms of health, and health service access.
Adelaide M Lusambili, Michela Martini, Faiza Abdirahman, Abena Asante, Sharon Ochieng, Joseph N Guni, Rose Maina, Stanley Luchters   +7 more
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Reinventing US Internal Migration Studies in the Age of International Migration [PDF]

Population, Space and Place, 2011
ABSTRACTI argue that researchers have sidelined attention to issues raised by US internal migration as they shifted focus to the questions posed by the post‐1960s rise in US immigration. In this paper, I offer some reasons about why immigration has garnered more attention and why there needs to be greater consideration of US internal migration and its ...
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Migration and Health: a fast Changing European Scenario

El Guiniguada, 2016
La migración está cambiando el desarrollo económico y demográfico de la Unión Europea y de los países de la Asociación del Mercado Libre Europeo y, desde la perspectiva de la salud, está afectando a la epidemiología de la enfermedad.
Manuel Carballo, Sofiat Akinola, Sebastián Carballo   +2 more
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Protocol for a comprehensive analysis of hepatitis C risk factors among the Rohingya population in camp settings in Cox’s Bazar: a mixed-method study

BMJ Open
Background The hepatitis C virus (HCV)—a communicable disease of global health concerns—affects approximately 20% of the Rohingya refugee population in Cox’s Bazar, Bangladesh, which is higher than that observed in its endemic country and the host ...
Charls Erik Halder, Md Abeed Hasan, Hamim Tassdik, James Charles Okello, S M Niaz Mowla, Aarti Shrikrishana Singh, Partha Pratim Das, Md Arafat Hossen   +7 more
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