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A community-based intervention to increase participation in cervical cancer screening among immigrants in Norway

open access: yesBMC Medical Research Methodology, 2019
Background The attendance to cervical cancer screening is low among immigrants in many high-income countries. Although several interventions have been experimentally tested,implementation remains a challenge.
Samera A. Qureshi   +5 more
doaj   +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 ...
Sserwanja, Quraish, Kawuki, Joseph
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Health care provided to recent asylum-seeking and non-asylum-seeking pediatric patients in 2016 and 2017 at a Swiss tertiary hospital - a retrospective study

open access: yesBMC Public Health, 2021
Background Asylum-seeking children represent an increasing and vulnerable group of patients whose health needs are largely unmet. Data on the health care provision to asylum-seeking children in European contexts is scarce.
Julia Brandenberger   +4 more
doaj   +1 more source

Migrant health professionals’ systemic human rights vulnerabilities

open access: yes, 2021
This article investigates whether the methods by which states implement citizens’ human rights possess serious weaknesses for ensuring migrant health professionals’ rights. Stemming from the discipline of normative philosophy, the moral approach to human
Ransome, William   +5 more
core   +1 more source

Health and access to health services of rural-to-urban migrant populations in Viet Nam [PDF]

open access: yes, 2013
Viet Nam has increasing internal migration since the Renovation (Doi Moi) in 1986. Migration flows – particularly rural-to-urban migration – have positive and negative effects to migrants, their family, and socio-economics in their places of origin and ...
Le, Anh Thi-Kim
core   +1 more source

Migrant-friendly hospitals: a paediatric perspective--improving hospital care for migrant children. [PDF]

open access: yes, 2013
BACKGROUND: The European Union (EU) Migrant-Friendly Hospital (MFH) Initiative, introduced in 2002, promotes the adoption of care approaches adapted to meet the service needs of migrants.
Zimmerman, C   +12 more
core   +1 more source

Preventable admissions and emergency-department-visits in pediatric asylum-seeking and non-asylum-seeking patients

open access: yesInternational Journal for Equity in Health, 2020
Background Migrant health has become an essential part of public health. According to the World Health Organization, many health systems in Europe have not yet adapted adequately to the needs of asylum-seekers, which might result in untimely and ...
Julia Brandenberger   +4 more
doaj   +1 more source

Implementation Evaluation of a Cluster Randomized Controlled Trial to Promote the Use of Respiratory Protective Equipment Among Migrant Workers Exposed to Organic Solvents in Small and Medium-Sized Enterprises

open access: yesFrontiers in Public Health, 2022
BackgroundWhile the effectiveness of several occupational healthcare interventions has been demonstrated, successful implementation of such programs among internal migrant workers (IMWs) in small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) has been limited. This
Chuangpeng Lin   +9 more
doaj   +1 more source

Society and health of migrants [PDF]

open access: yesEuropean Journal of Epidemiology, 2016
In London, in May 2016, a photograph was tweeted with the caption: “This is what a civilised society looks like”. The photo showed the inauguration of the newly elected London mayor—hardly remarkable in itself. But the specialness of the scene grows by degrees.
openaire   +3 more sources

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