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Migrant health

open access: yes, 2020
Millions of people are migrating from around the world. Many of these migrants are born in Asia. Migrants can transport infectious diseases and sexually transmitted ailments to the host country. Social Determinants that impact migrant’s health are educational conditions, culture-based superstition, language barrier, and life-style in the state of ...
Catherine Itsiopoulos, Antonia Thodis
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Migrant women’s experiences of pregnancy, childbirth and maternity care in European countries: A systematic review [PDF]

open access: yes, 2020
Background: Across Europe there are increasing numbers of migrant women who are of childbearing age. Migrant women are at risk of poorer pregnancy outcomes.
Fair, Frankie   +6 more
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Migrant Farmworkers\u27 Perceptions of Pesticide Risk Exposure in Adams County, Pennsylvania: A Cultural Risk Assessment [PDF]

open access: yes, 2018
Agricultural exceptionalism, a system in which regular labor laws and standards do not apply to farm labor, makes migrant farmworkers particularly vulnerable populations—economically, socially, and in terms of environmental health.
Edelson, Micaela S. G.   +2 more
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Health of Philippine Emigrants Study (HoPES): study design and rationale. [PDF]

open access: yes, 2018
BackgroundImmigrants to the United States are usually healthier than their U.S.-born counterparts, yet the health of immigrants declines with duration of stay in the U.S.
Brindle, Eleanor   +8 more
core   +1 more source

Migrant Health: Healthy Migrant Effect and the Need to Prioritize Migrant Health

open access: yesAsian Journal of Medicine and Health, 2020
Globally, the number of international migrants is about 258 million with over 60% of these living in Asia and Europe and the rest of the 40% living in Northern America, Africa, Latin America and the Caribbean and Oceania. We aimed to describe the healthy migrant effect, the public health challenges faced by migrants and approaches that host countries ...
Joseph Kawuki, Quraish Sserwanja
openaire   +2 more sources

Applying a typology of health worker migration to non-EU migrant doctors in Ireland [PDF]

open access: yes, 2015
Background: Research on health worker migration in the Irish context has categorized migrant health workers by country or region of training (for example, non-EU nurses or doctors) or recruitment mechanism (for example, actively recruited nurses).
Brugha, Ruairi   +5 more
core   +2 more sources

The experiences and perspectives of overseas trained speech and language therapists working in the United Kingdom [PDF]

open access: yes, 2010
There is a growing body of research which has investigated the experience of the migrant health worker. However, only one of these studies has included speech and language therapists thus far, and then only with extremely small numbers.
Boswell S.   +19 more
core   +1 more source

Investigation of a Q fever outbreak in a Scottish co-located slaughterhouse and cutting plant [PDF]

open access: yes, 2010
Outbreaks of Q fever are rare in the UK. In 2006, the largest outbreak of Q fever in Scotland occurred at a co-located slaughterhouse and cutting plant with 110 cases.
Australian Government   +21 more
core   +1 more source

Health-related quality of life in migrant preschool children [PDF]

open access: yes, 2013
BACKGROUND: Minority groups have a lower health-related quality of life (HRQOL), but there is little information if this finding also applies to children. In this study, we compared HRQOL between young children with and without migrant parents.
Bodenman, Patrick   +6 more
core   +4 more sources

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