نتایج جستجو برای: migrant health

تعداد نتایج: 986819  

Journal: :Bioscience trends 2011
Ruoyan Gai Tobe Lingzhong Xu Peipei Song Yong Huang

The migrant population is a population with a high risk of tuberculosis (TB) infection and transmission. Globally, migration is likely to have a significant impact on TB epidemiology, particularly in countries that receive substantial numbers of migrants from countries with a high infection burden. China, a country with the world's second highest TB burden, faces a considerable increase in the ...

2015
Ramon Lorenzo Luis R. Guinto Ufara Zuwasti Curran Rapeepong Suphanchaimat Nicola S. Pocock

Background As the Association of South East Asian Nations (ASEAN) gears toward full regional integration by 2015, the cross-border mobility of workers and citizens at large is expected to further intensify in the coming years. While ASEAN member countries have already signed the Declaration on the Protection and Promotion of the Rights of Migrant Workers, the health rights of migrants still nee...

2017
Ade Kearns Elise Whitley Matt Egan Catherine Tabbner Carol Tannahill

This paper examines the healthy immigrant effect in Glasgow, a post-industrial city where the migrant population has more than doubled in the last decade. Using data from a community survey in 15 communities across the city, the paper compares four health outcomes for the following three groups: British-born, social and economic migrants and asylum seekers and refugees. Migrants were found to b...

Journal: :Health and human rights 2013
Charlene Galarneau

Little is known about the reproductive health of women migrant farmworkers in the US. The health and rights of these workers are advanced by fundamental human rights principles that are sometimes conceptually and operationally siloed into three approaches: reproductive health, reproductive rights, and reproductive justice. I focus on the latter framework, as it lends critical attention to the s...

2015
Joanna R. Weinberg Christopher Henrich Joanna Rose Weinberg Julia Perilla Lisa Armistead Gabriel Kuperminc

Inherent in their living and working conditions, Migrant and Seasonal Farm Workers (MSFWs) are exposed to a multitude of environmental and psychosocial stressors that make them susceptible to adverse health outcomes. Utilizing a resilience framework, the current study examined both the physical and psychological health functioning of MSFWs in Georgia, a state heavily reliant on farm worker labo...

2006
Adama Konseiga Eliya Msiyaphazi Zulu Yazoumé Yé IZA Bonn

Assessing the Effect of Mother’s Migration on Childhood Mortality in the Informal Settlements of Nairobi Between one and two million migrants reside in cramped conditions in Nairobi’s slums without proper access to sanitation or affordable clean water. Children in such areas are exposed to enormous risks, health risks in particular. Using longitudinal data collected every four months during the...

2012
Xinxu Li Shiwen Jiang Xue Li Jian Mei Qiu Zhong Weiguo Xu Jun Li Weibin Li Xiaoqiu Liu Hui Zhang Lixia Wang

OBJECTIVES To determine the length of delay in initial health-seeking in new pulmonary tuberculosis (PTB) cases among migrant population in the eastern part of China, and factors associated with it. METHODS A cross-sectional study was conducted using a structured questionnaire in six counties in Shanghai, Guangdong and Jiangsu from May to October, 2008, to estimate the extent and factors resp...

2017
Abdulbari Bener

BACKGROUND Very little research and survey have been performed on the occupational health, hazards, and working condition of urban and rural of workers in Qatar. The aim of the current study is to identify the health status, lifestyle condition, working-related problems, and accidents experienced by Indian subcontinental migrants (ISCM) in Qatar and their access to health-care facilities. MET...

2012
Kari M. Bail Jennifer Foster Safiya George Dalmida Ursula Kelly Maeve Howett Erin P. Ferranti Judith Wold

Migrant farmworkers represent one of the most marginalized and underserved populations in the United States. Acculturation theory cannot be easily mapped onto the transnational experience of migrant farmworkers, who navigate multiple physical and cultural spaces yearly, and who are not recognized by the state they constitute, "the Citizen's Other" (Kerber, 2009). This paper utilizes narrative a...

Journal: :Journal of health care for the poor and underserved 2010
Candace Kugel Edward L Zuroweste

T definition of migrant appearing above includes elements from the U.N. Convention on the Rights of Migrants1 and from the American Heritage Dictionary.2 For many in the United States, the term migrant worker conjures an image of an immigrant farm laborer. However, most migrants participate in multiple industries in addition to agriculture, generally low-wage and often high-risk occupations suc...

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