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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.

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Migration health: Better health for all in Europe

2009 Policy brief English
Author/s: María-José Peiro, Roumyana Petrova-Benedict

The Assisting Migrants and Communities (AMAC): Analysis of Social Determinants of Health and Health Inequalities has been an initiative of the International Organization for Migration (IOM), implemented with the support of the European Commission’s Health Programme and the Office of the Portuguese High Commissioner for Health, which has contributed to recent efforts to tackle health inequalities in relation to migration in Europe.

Maternal and child healthcare for immigrant populations

2009 Policy brief English
Author/s: Maria do Céu Machado, Ana Fernandes, Beatriz Padilla, Sónia Dias, Inês Gomes, Alexandra Dias, Miguel Oliveira e Silva

Migration represents a great opportunity for the European Union. It counteracts the demographic ageing and enhances Europe’s economic potential by meeting the needs of an increasingly demanding labour market and by contributing to socio-cultural enrichment. A holistic and sensitive policy framework needs to be developed in order to provide quality health care to migrant mothers and their children.

Cultural Competence and Training in Mental Health Practice in Europe: Strategies to Implement Competence and Empower Practitioners

2009 Policy brief English
Author/s: Rachid Bennegadi

The achievement of good mental health levels is important for the economic and social welfare of a society. Due to the circumstances surrounding the migration process, migrant populations have been found to disproportionately face mental health problems when compared to host populations. On the other hand, in today’s EU multicultural societies, mental health care approaches are often ineffective, resulting in major disparities especially affecting migrant populations.…

Cultural Competence and Training in Mental Health Practice in Europe: Strategies to Implement Competence and Empower Practitioners

2009 Background/ Discussion paper English
Author/s: Rachid Bennegadi

This paper aims to highlight the common denominator of cultural training demands and responses of mental health professionals, regardess of the healthcare system, the Europen country of the migrant community concerned, as well as the basic elements to efficiently implement cultural competency within the mental healthcare setting.

Migration and the right to health in Europe

2009 Policy brief English
Author/s: Paola Pace, Sam Shapiro

The objective of this paper is to give an overview of the European legal framework governing migration and health. At the outset, it must be noted that there is a large percentage of European migration that is, in fact, intra-European migration. For EU nationals residing outside of their countries of origin there are numerous challenges that must be overcome in order to realize the right to health. While there is a substantial legal framework in place in the EU to address…

Health care for undocumented migrants in the EU: Concepts and cases

2009 Background/ Discussion paper English
Author/s: Ursula Karl-Trummer, Brigit Metzler, Sonja Novak-Zezula

A concept model presented in this paper introduces the concept of health care provision for undocumented migrants as a management strategy. Study cases from Australia and Italy are used to illustrate the concept.

Ensuring the right of migrant children to health care: The response of hospitals and health services

2009 Background/ Discussion paper English
Author/s: Ana Isabel Fernandez Guerreiro, Fabrizio Simonelli, Rosa Gloria Suarez Lopez Vergara, Alberto Armas Navarro, Sara Darias Curvo, Anna Zapulla, Anders Hjern, Lynda Stokes, PJ. Boyle

In the context of migration of children, how do hospitals and health services respond to the needs and rights of children within the wider framework of child protection and healthcare provision? This paper deals with the response of hospitals and healthcare services to the right of migrant children to healthcare in relation to the provisions of the Convention on the Rights of the Child and the holistic concept of health. On the one hand, the Convention on the Rights of the…

Health care for undocumented migrants in the EU: Concepts and cases

2009 Policy brief English
Author/s: Ursula Karl-Trummer, Brigit Metzler, Sonja Novak-Zezula

Migration and its implications for health have become important issues in the discussion of European and national health policies. On a conceptual level, health care provision for undocumented migrants can be described as management of a paradox with different strategies at the policy and practice level.

Improving health care for migrant populations using practice innovations and strategic alliances to drive change: The U.S. case

2009 Policy brief English
Author/s: Julia Puebla Fortier

This brief highlights the impact that different players and policy agendas can have to advance the cause of better health care for migrants and minority communities, as seen in the U.S. These include the role of minority specific service delivery innovations and policy developments, and the work of individual sectoral efforts as well as the powerful strategic alliances between them.

Maternal and child healthcare for immigrant populations

2009 Background/ Discussion paper English
Author/s: Maria do Céu Machado, Ana Fernandes, Beatriz Padilla, Sónia Dias, Inês Gomes, Alexandra Dias, Miguel Oliveira e Silva

Caring for migrants’ health is a matter of human rights and a fundamental way of tackling unacceptable inequalities in health and healthcare provision. In the European Union, recent migration trends and phenomena such as the increasing feminization of migration, alongside with family reunification policies developed by some Member States, raise new concerns about the capacity of social and health policies to deal with newcomers’ groups.

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