Publications Search
This publications portal is a repository of all IOM migration health publications from 2006 to present where IOM was a primary contributor.
Publications include peer-reviewed scientific papers, technical reports, training guides/manuals, policy briefs/discussion papers, factsheets, newsletters, research reviews, conference and poster presentations. These are categorized by topic, author, country/region covered as well as by year, language, and type of publication. The map reflects the countries covered by the publications.
To browse or search: simply use the filter options on the left-hand side. Alternatively, you can enter keyword/s in the search box. Selecting a specific publication will lead to a ‘download’ link or link to the website where the document is housed. Here is the step-by-step guide for your reference.
Nutrition Surveillance Report (Issue No. 4, January–December 2013)
Author/s: IOM
This report presents child growth and malnutrition status of refugee children examined by the IOM Health Assessment Programme at select locations namely Ethiopia, Iraq, Jordan, Kenya, Malaysia, Nepal, Thailand, Rwanda, South Africa and Uganda. The report analyses prevalence of three key indicators for protein–energy malnutrition, namely, weight-for-height or wasting, height-for-age or stunting, and weight-for-age or underweight. Data for this analysis is generated from the…
Read morePartnership on Health and Mobility in East and Southern Africa (PHAMESA) Summary of the Annual Report 2014
Author/s: IOM Regional Office South Africa
This report illustrates activities of the Partnership on Health And Mobility in East and Southern Africa (PHAMESA) in 2014.
Content:
- What we have done
- Where we work with and whom
- Our approach
- Monitoring migrants' health
- Migration inclusive policies and legislation
- Migration-…
Health vulnerabilities of mobile and migrant populations in Selected Ports of South Africa - Regional Synthesis Report
Author/s: Tim Quinlan
This SADC- funded project was a regional project involving primary research conducted at the ports of Beira, Dar es Salaam, Durban and Walvis Bay. This report is a synthesis of the findings of the research from the studies conducted at each port. Those findings are based on research conducted by four teams of researchers. Each team was selected in the country where they were to conduct the research. Their respective research was presented in four different reports. A…
Read moreMRS N°48 - Mobility of Health Professionals to, from and within the European Union
Author/s: Caroline Schultz, Barbara Rijks
This publication is a shortened version of the summary report “Mobility of Health Professionals: Health systems, work conditions, patterns of health workers’ mobility and implication for policy makers”, which was published in March 2012, in Bonn, Germany, by a consortium led by Dr. Caren Weilandt at the Wissenschaftliches Institut der Ärzte Deutschlands (WIAD, Scientific Institute of the Medical Association of German Doctors). The summary report was written by Frits…
Read moreEye on Migration and Health, Jan-Jun 2013
Author/s: IOM South Africa
This issue focused on IOMs efforts to support governments in these regions to integrate the health needs of migrants into national and regional plans, policies and strategies, taking into account their human rights, including the right to health.
Featured articles:
- IOM address the health of migrants in the Southern Africa mining sector
- Regional:IOM supports accelerated response to…
Eye on Migration and Health, Issue 6, April 2012
Author/s: IOM South Africa
A bulletin of news, information and analysis on migration and health in East and Southern Africa.
Inside this Issue:
- IOM South Afruca opens new health assessment centre
- IOM Awarded for contribution to improved health care
- The Wives behind Mozambique's migrant mineworkers
- IOM Sensitises Vulnerable Population on HIV Prevention …
Eye on Migration and Health, Issue 5, June 2011
Author/s: IOM RO Southern Africa
A bulletin of news, information and analysis of migration and health in East and Southern Africa.
Inside this Issue:
- New clinic offers roadside health care for mobile population in Kenya
- Providing medical escort services to medically unfit Zimbabwean migrants
- Southern Africa ports as spaces of HIV vulnerability
- HIV Vulnerabiity…
Eye on Migration Health, Issue 4, November 2010
Author/s: IOM RO Southern Africa
A bulletin of news, information and analysis on migration health in Southern Africa.
Content:
- IOM farm worker study reveals highest HIV prevalence ever reported among a working population in Southern Africa
- Introducing the partnership on health and mobility in East and Southern Africa
- Spaces of vulnerability - moving beyond stigmatizing migrants
- IOM implementing partner clinches second impumelelo innovations awards
- Keyhold garden help…
Regional Workshop on HIV Responses for Mine Workers, Their Families and Affected Communities in Southern Africa
Author/s: IOM, UNAIDS RSTESA, TEBA, SIDA, Southern Africa Development Community (SADC)
In response to the health and HIV vulnerabilities of mine workers, their families and the communities with which they interact, IOM in partnership with Southern African Development Community (SADC) HIV/AIDS Unit, United Nations Joint Programme on HIV/AIDS Regional Support Team for Eastern and Southern Africa (UNAIDS RSTESA), and TEBA Development (Regional Office), organised a Regional Workshop on HIV Responses for Mine Workers, Their Families and Affected Communities in…
Read moreMIDSA Workshop on Promoting Health and Development: Migration Health in Southern Africa
Author/s: IOM Southern Africa
IOM in partnership with the Southern Africa Migration Project (SAMP) and in special collaboration with the World Health Organization (WHO) organised a Migration Dialogue for Southern Africa (MIDSA) on Promoting Health and Development: Migration Health in Southern Africa from 10 to 12 June 2009 in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania. The MIDSA was hosted by the Government of Tanzania with the main objective being to work towards the implementation of the WHA 61.17 resolution ‘Health of…
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