OBJECTIVES To assess the health service utilisation of internal migrant children in Guangdong, China, and to explore the association between children's health service utilisation and their parents' acculturation. DESIGN Cross-sectional survey between April and May 2016. SETTING Six society-run schools of Tianhe and Baiyun districts in Guangzhou City of China. PARTICIPANTS We recruited all...

This study examines healthcare use in 2011 for communicable diseases among migrant workers compared with Thai workers in Thailand. The relative risks (RRs) of 14 communicable diseases (803,817 cases between ages 18 and 59) were calculated using the National Epidemiological Surveillance System, a nationwide hospital database. Regarding the migrant workers, 71.0% were Burmese and 17.3% were Cambo...

BACKGROUND Immigration has been and remains an important force shaping Canadian demography and identity. Health characteristics associated with the movement of large numbers of people have current and future implications for migrants, health practitioners and health systems. We aimed to identify demographics and health status data for migrant populations in Canada. METHODS We systematically s...

BACKGROUND Research has demonstrated a bidirectional relationship between physical function and depression, but studies on their association in migrant populations are scarce. We examined the association between mental health symptoms and mobility limitation in Russian, Somali and Kurdish migrants in Finland. METHODS We used data from the Finnish Migrant Health and Wellbeing Study (Maamu). Th...

This paper aims at investigating the impact of migration on fertility, knowledge of contraceptive methods and preventive child health care in Mexico. A nationally representative demographic survey ENADID (National Survey of Demographic Dynamics) for the years 1997 and 2006 is used. In order to address the possible endogeneity of migrant status, an instrumental variable approach is employed: his...

Background & objective: A cross-sectional study was conducted to determine the prevalence of Plasmodium infections among migrant workers in Thailand. Methods: A total of 241 migrants at Kanchanaburi, Pathumthani and Nakornpathom provinces of Thailand were recruited in our surveillance. Blood samples were examined for human malaria parasites by using microscopy and semi-nested multiplex PCR (SnM...