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Migration Medicine and Health: Principles and Practice

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ISBN-10: 1550093207

ISBN-13: 9781550093209

Edition: 2006

Authors: Brian D. Gushulak, Douglas W. MacPherson

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Throughout human history migration and disease have been intimate, sometimes deadly partners. Migration Medicine offers an overview of the historical triggers and ethical issues that spurred development of the global public health monitoring and control agencies we know today. The text aims to propose new approaches to the health of internationally mobile populations at multiple levels, such as integration and harmonization with what may have been considered traditionally non-health sectors--trade, the economy, and international security. The need to provide a strong evidence base for political decision making has become one of the most important drivers in international affairs related to…    
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Book details

List price: $99.95
Copyright year: 2006
Publisher: B C Decker Inc
Binding: Cloth Text 
Pages: 528
Size: 7.25" wide x 10.00" long x 1.25" tall
Weight: 3.036
Language: English

A new framework for the rational management of health and population mobility in a rapidly globalizing and integrated world - shifting the existing paradigm
A historical perspective of migration and disease
Globalization and population mobility : demographics, biometrics, and health
Institutional processes of migration - the modern context of an ancient process
Current politics and policies of migration
The rights of migrants, refugees, and asylum seekers
Irregular migration : human smuggling and trafficking
Complex humanitarian emergencies and other crisis situations
Screening of migrants
Long-term consequences of migration : generational effects
Health policies and national responses to migration
Social aspects of migration
Health culture, disease, and illness
Abnormal behavior, mental health issues, and migration
Noncommunicable diseases, population mobility, and health
Infectious disease issues in migrants and mobile populations
Health issues related to the migration of women and girls
Children and unaccompanied minors
Illegal and undocumented migrants
Other migrants at health risk - special traveler groups : the elderly, pilgrims, and those visiting friends and relatives
Long-term temporary residents abroad : expatriates, missionaries, and humanitarian workers
The implications of violence and trauma in mobile populations
Surveillance and data collection in public health
Approach to the migrant as a patient
Providing care to migrant families
Reaching individual migrants
Health concept issues related to return and repatriation
Rethinking public health in a global mobility context
Improving health systems and health care services for migrants
Health and labor migration
Multicultural medicine
The use of interpreters for migrant patients
Normative principles, ethics, and values : relevance to migrants and health
Cultural competence for a globalized world
Migration and health : an agenda for the future
Migration from region with high prevalence of disease risk to low-prevalence destination, less than 6 months' residency
Migration from region with high prevalence of disease risk to low-prevalence destination, more than 6 months' residency
Migration from region with high prevalence of disease risk to low-prevalence destination, generational effects (children of foreign-born migrants; family reunifications)
Migration from region with low prevalence of disease risk to high-prevalence destination, less than 6 months' residency
Migration from region with low prevalence of disease risk to high-prevalence destination, more than 6 months' residency
Migration from region with low prevalence of disease risk to high-prevalence country : generational effects (children of foreign-born migrants; family reunifications)