Publications on COVID-19 and Migration Health

Repository of Research Publications on COVID-19 and Migration Health

This section features an interactive, open-source, searchable (and downloadable) repository of research publications based on a mapping exercise involving the quantitative assessment of a set of published scientific articles (i.e. bibliometric analysis) on COVID-19 in relation to migrants, migration, and human mobility. 

 

Searching and Navigating the Database

  • Enter keyword/s in the search box on the left-hand sidebar to find publications of relevance to your specific interest.
  • Use the filter options on the left-hand sidebar to search through available publications (i.e., by theme/sub-theme; region/country of coverage; publication type; author/s; year of publication).
  • The map provides an overview of the countries covered in the research publications. Hover over the map to see the number of publications in a specific country or region.

The results of your search can be downloaded as an “XLS” file. Search results will also be listed at the bottom of the page. Selecting the title of a specific publication will lead to a “download” link or a link to the website where the original document is housed.

Year:
Document Type: Article
Language: English
Author/s: Massad E., Amaku M., Wilder-Smith A., Santos P.C.C.D., Struchiner C.J., Coutinho F.A.B.
Migration angle: Travelers
Source Title: Epidemiology and Infection
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Theme > Subtheme: Mathematical modelling
Region/Country (by coverage): China

We present two complementary model-based methods for calculating the risk of international spread of the novel coronavirus SARS-CoV-2from the outbreak epicentre. One model aims to calculate the number of cases that would be exported from an endemic country to disease-free regionsby travellers. The second model calculates the probability that an infected traveller will generate at least one secondary autochthonous case in the visited country. Although this paper focuses on the data from China… Read more