نتایج جستجو برای: migrant health

تعداد نتایج: 986819  

2007
Hélène Marchandin Estelle Jumas-Bilak Abderrahmane Boumzebra Delphine Vidal Olivier Jonquet Philippe Corne

in Australia (5). Given the aforementioned linguistic and coordination issues with follow-up of migrant workers and the potential gravity of inappropriate clinical follow-up, it may be prudent to consider Q fever vaccination for all employees who work within UK meat-processing industries. Public health practitioners should be aware of the continuously evolving multinational makeup of the local ...

2013
Joanna Kapusta Laura Schöffel David Gogolishvili Jason Globerman

 The instability and mobility of migrant farm workers create unique barriers to accessing health care services including: transportation, cultural, language, and legal barriers. These barriers may prevent the diagnosis and treatment of HIV and sexually transmitted infections (STIs), and encourage their transmission.  Data on the behaviours of migrant farm workers show: lower rates of condom u...

2013
Haiyan XING Wei YU Sanmei CHEN Dengke ZHANG Rongmei TAN

BACKGROUND The World Health Organization Quality of Life-BREF (WHOQOL-BREF) has generally been used for patients, few studies in migrants who move from rural to urban within one country. Many studies asserted that social isolation presents a risk to individual health. Poor social networks are associated with worse QOL. This study examined health-related quality of life (HRQOL) and social suppor...

2015
Yang Cao Zhengkui Liu

China’s domestic rural-to-urban migration has reached a stage where migration in family units is common, and basic data on the wellbeing of these families in urban settings are required for adequate social services. To obtain such data, we conducted a large-scale (N = 16,550) cross-sectional survey in Beijing of rural-to-urban migrant workers’ children attending the fourth through ninth grades,...

Journal: :Canadian journal of public health = Revue canadienne de sante publique 2016
Esme Fuller-Thomson Sarah Brennenstuhl Rachel Cooper Diana Kuh

OBJECTIVES The finding that migrants to high-income countries have lower rates of morbidity and mortality than non-migrants, controlling for socioeconomic position, is often attributed to the "healthy migrant" hypothesis, which suggests that only the healthiest individuals choose to migrate. This prospective study investigates the healthy migrant hypothesis in a cohort of British emigrants usin...

Journal: :Emerging Themes in Epidemiology 2006
Brian D Gushulak Douglas W MacPherson

Currently, migrants and other mobile individuals, such as migrant workers and asylum seekers, are an expanding global population of growing social, demographic and political importance. Disparities often exist between a migrant population's place of origin and its destination, particularly with relation to health determinants. The effects of those disparities can be observed at both individual ...

Journal: :Public health nutrition 2001
N Darmon M Khlat

OBJECTIVE To review studies on the morbidity, mortality and nutrition of migrant populations in France. DESIGN A systematic search of the bibliographic database Medline, and direct contact with associations and institutions concerned with migrants' health. RESULTS In France, as in other host countries, migrants belong to the lowest socio-economic strata. They have on average better health a...

2016
Josephine Agu Roanna Lobo Gemma Crawford Bethwyn Chigwada

Increasing HIV notifications amongst migrant and mobile populations to Australia is a significant public health issue. Generalizations about migrant health needs and delayed or deterred help-seeking behaviors can result from disregarding the variation between and within cultures including factors, such as drivers for migration and country of birth. This study explored barriers and enablers to a...

Journal: :Health promotion international 2013
Takeshi Akiyama Thar Win Cynthia Maung Paw Ray Aiko Kaji Aya Tanabe Masamine Jimba Jun Kobayashi

In Thailand, a health-promoting school (HPS) program is in place nationwide. However, this policy has not covered Burmese migrant schools. Therefore, to ensure the feasibility of the implementation of a HPS program, we conducted evaluations and an intervention on school health in migrant schools in Thailand. We included 44 primary-level schools in the Tak province in 2008. We were able to evalu...

Journal: :Social science & medicine 1986
D P Slesinger B A Christenson E Cautley

This research examines preventive medical care, morbidity and mortality among children of migrant agricultural workers using a representative sample of migrant families in Wisconsin. Our findings support the view that this group is at substantially greater risk of health problems and early mortality than the general population. Fewer than half of migrant children under age 16 received the recom...

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