Irregular migrants: a critical care or a public health emergency

Healthy Migrants or Health Migrants? Accounting For the Health Care Utilisation Patterns of Zimbabwean Migrants Living in South Africa

Background: There is a long history of migration between Zimbabwe and South Africa. In recent years there has been a significant increase in the mix of Zimbabweans migrating to South Africa in search of better economic opportunities, fleeing political persecution, to pursue education. Little is known about the public health impact of this migration, the healthcare needs of the different categor...

Mental health care for irregular migrants in Europe: Barriers and how they are overcome

BACKGROUND Irregular migrants (IMs) are exposed to a wide range of risk factors for developing mental health problems. However, little is known about whether and how they receive mental health care across European countries. The aims of this study were (1) to identify barriers to mental health care for IMs, and (2) to explore ways by which these barriers are overcome in practice. METHODS Data...

A Global Public Goods Approach to the Health of Migrants

This paper explores a global public goods approach to the health of migrants. It suggests that this approach establishes that there are a number of health goods which must be provided to migrants not because these are theirs by right (although this may independently be the case), but because these goods are primary goods which fit the threefold criteria of global public goods. There are two key...

Perinatal Mental Health: A Public Health Concern

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Crack in Brazil: a public health emergency.