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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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Health and Reintegration. Returning to Space but not to Time: A life course approach to migrants’ health, continuity of care and impact on reintegration outcomes
Author/s: Samuel Hall and IOM
This study was the result of a collaboration between the EU-IOM Knowledge Management Hub (KMH), with the financial support of the European Union (EU), in collaboration with Samuel Hall and the African Centre for Migration and Society at the University of the Witwatersrand in South Africa.
The main aim of this research was to explore the links between health needs, access to care, and sustainable reintegration of returnees. Within this, there were four main objectives that link the…
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Integracion Laboral En El Sector Salud De La Poblacion Venezolana En La Republica Argentina
Author/s: IOM
The research aimed to characterize the Venezuelan health professionals living in Argentina, both in terms of their labour qualifications and those much sought after by the local job market. By means of this study, IOM hoped to contribute to decisionmaking by migration, sanitary and educational authorities, regarding the promotion of the labour integration of the Venezuelan population residing in the country.

Health for all migrants in Latin America and the Caribbean
Author/s: Cabieses B, Bernales M, van der Laat C
Latin America and the Caribbean has faced inconsistent human rights and health protection for migrants in the past, just as much as other regions. For example, in Chile, about 70% of immigrants come from other Latin America and the Caribbean countries (representing 2·7% of the total population of Chile), and a third of them are estimated to be undocumented or socioeconomically vulnerable. These migrants tend to work in informal jobs and to live in poor quality, overcrowded buildings.…
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Labour exploitation, trafficking and migrant health: Multi-country findings on the health risks and consequences of migrant and trafficked workers (Russian)
Author/s: Ana Marie Buler, Hanni Stoklosa, Cathy Zimmerman, Vanessa Vaca, Rosilyne Borland, IOM, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine
Global assessments suggest that a substantial proportion of labour migrants ends up in situations of extreme exploitation, some of whom are identified as victims of human trafficking. Because large numbers of migrant workers fall into a “grey area” between trafficking (as defined by international and national law) and exploitative labour situations, there is good reason to explore the differences and similarities between the health needs of those who have been identified…
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Explotación Laboral Trata y Salud de los Migrantes: Hallazgos en Diversos Países sobre los Riesgos y Consecuencias para la Salud de los Trabajadores Migrantes y las Víctimas de Trata (Spanish)
Author/s: Ana Maria Buller, Hanni Stoklosa, Cathy Zimmerman, IOM, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine
Las evaluaciones mundiales sugieren que una proporción sustancial de los trabajadores migrantes terminan en situaciones de explotación extrema, algunos de los cuales han sido identificados como víctimas de trata de personas. Debido a que un gran número de trabajadores migrantes caen en una "zona gris" entre la trata (como es definida por el derecho internacional y nacional) y situaciones de explotación laboral, hay una buena razón para explorar las diferencias y…
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Labour exploitation, trafficking and migrant health: Multi-country findings on the health risks and consequences of migrant and trafficked workers
Author/s: Ana Marie Buler, Hanni Stoklosa, Cathy Zimmerman, Vanessa Vaca, Rosilyne Borland, IOM, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine
Global assessments suggest that a substantial proportion of labour migrants ends up in situations of extreme exploitation, some of whom are identified as victims of human trafficking. Because large numbers of migrant workers fall into a “grey area” between trafficking (as defined by international and national law) and exploitative labour situations, there is good reason to explore the differences and similarities between the health needs of those who have been…
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Los emprendimientos juveniles y su aporte a la reducción de la vulnerabilidad al VIH/Sida: Una mirada y distintas ópticas
Author/s: Oliverio Huertas Rodríguez, Leydi Higidio Henao, Inés Elvira Mejía Motta
Este documento hace una mirada a los emprendimientos juveniles como estrategia innovadora de reducción de la vulnerabilidad al VIH en el marco de las acciones del PFMC, pero la hace a partir de diferentes ópticas, la del Proyecto mismo y la de un estudio de caso que aportó un componente cualitativo a la comprensión del potencial y alcance de esta estrategia como complemento necesario a una respuesta integral frente al reto del VIH / SIDA en Colombia.

Afianzando identidades: impacto de una estrategia de educación de pares en la salud sexual de los jóvenes
Author/s: Gloria Pedraza Plazas, Franklyn Prieto Alvarado
En este libro se presentan las voces de las y los jóvenes que participaron en el desarrollo del Proyecto Colombia, en el se recogen las preocupaciones, opiniones y acciones en torno al ejercicio de la sexualidad, en sus contextos sociales y culturales, este ejercicio comprensivo de la realidad de los y las jóvenes permitió definir estrategias intersectoriales para materializar los derechos sexuales y reproductivos, como una manera de reducir la vulnerabilidad entre el VIH…

Jovenes: Vulnerabilidad y VIH. Resultados de la encuesta CAP, primera fase
Author/s: Franklyn Prieto Alvarado, Carlos Alberto González
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Jóvenes: vulnerabilidad y VIH. Resultados de la encuesta CAP. Segunda Fase
Author/s: Franklyn Prieto Alvarado, Carlos Alberto González P