The refugees and migrants surging into Europe are suffering very high levels of psychiatric disorders. Researchers are struggling to help.doi:10.1038/538158aAbbottAlisonNature Publishing Group UKNatureAbbott, A. The mental-health crisis among migrants. Nature 2016, 538, 158-160. [CrossRef] [PubMed...
Mexican and other Latin American immigrants in the United States have been depicted as vulnerable subjects due to their socioeconomic and legal status.Footnote4While health-related vulnerability associated with being a migrant is particularly severe during the trek in which migrants attempt to cross int...
To mitigate against the possibility that workers may back- out or run away from the training centre, family property (land, vehicles, etc.) is often secured as collateral [12]. By contrast, in the Philippines, prospective migrants must pay numerous fees upon signing a contract with a ...
The objective of this paper is to examine the role of migrant socio-economic status and the impact of migrant integration policies on health inequalities during the recent economic crisis in Europe. Methods Using the 2012 wave of Eurostat EU-SILC data for a set of 23 European countries, we ...
Another cross-sectional, population-based study examined the mental health of refugees and non-refugee migrants from various countries in Sweden [25]. Individuals with more years of education were less likely to purchase psychotropic drugs (used by the authors as a proxy for mental problems) than...
41-47 There are strong ties between the physical health of women (eg, high body mass index, NCDs, nutrition) and neonatal outcomes (such as pregnancy complications, short gestational age, and low birth weight), which are in turn linked with poorer health outcomes and delayed development.3,6...
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this health-related crisis aggravated this issue and intertwined with factors such as stress, job insecurity, chaotic environment, ethnic-racial discrimination, and socioeconomic inequities [12,13,14]. A study conducted by Gama et al. (2022) found that migrants in Portugal (especially older, femal...
Since the creation of this scheme, it has been the object of many political debates which call it into question, on account of its cost, perceived fraud, and the legitimacy of a social protection for undocumented migrants. Recently, access to State Medical Assistance has been made difficult by...
The survey included questions for respondents who may have been practicing in another country but who have since returned. One third of survey respondents indicated that they were return migrants, suggesting that health worker migration from South Africa was beginning to resemble the “circular migratio...