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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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Shedding light on governance for Roma health inequities

2018 Scientific report (Journal) English
Author/s: Marta Escobar-Ballesta, Manuel Garcia-Ramirez, Daniella Miranda, Roumyana Petrova-Benedict

The health inequities suffered by the Roma population in Europe represent an alarming and unacceptable source of injustice. As the main ethnic minority in Europe, the gap between the health conditions of the Roma and the rest of the population poses a challenge to human rights and public health. Many political efforts have been deployed in Europe to tackle these inequities. However, they have fallen short, even causing paradoxical consequences. In this paper, we argue that…

Fostering Health Provision for Migrants, the Roma, and Other Vulnerable Groups

2015 Workshop/ Conference/ Seminar Presentation English
Author/s: IOM MHD RO Brussels, Center for Health and Migration

Presented during the meeting of the expert group on social determinants and health inequalities on 17-18 November 2015. The EQUI HEALTH project is co-financed under the 2012 work plan, within the second program of Community action in the field of health (2008 – 2013), by direct grant awarded to IOM from the European Commission’s DG for Health and Consumers (SANTE), through the Consumers, Health and Food Executive Agency (CHAFEA).

Migration: A social determinant of migrants' health

2010 Scientific report (Journal) English
Author/s: Anita Davies, Anna Basten, Chiara Frattini

Migrants are affected by social inequalities and are exposed to several experiences during the migration process which put their physical, mental and social well-being at risk. Migrants’ health is also to a large extent determined by the availability, accessibility, acceptability and quality of services in the host community or country. This article discusses how the migration process and legal status are determinants of migrants’ health. It raises the issue that good public health practice…

Social exclusion and structural health inequalities. In: Moving Forward Equity in Health

2010 Report English
Author/s: Ana Rico, Roumyana Petrova-Benedict, Anna Basten, Rosa Urbanos

Chapter VI. In: Moving Forward Equity in Health: Monitoring Social Determinants of Health and the Reduction of Health Inequalities

The SOCIAL EXCLUSION AND STRUCTURAL HEALTH INEQUALITIES chapter focuses on monitoring social exclusion and structural health inequality (HI) in the European Union. It proposes an integrated battery of indicators to measure the impact of social exclusion on health inequalities as well as its interaction…

Migration Health: Better Health for All in Europe (Final report)

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

While migration itself is under normal circumstances not a risk for health, conditions surrounding the migration process, particularly the inequalities in access to health services and in social determinants of health, can increase vulnerability for ill health. Moreover, migrants are at risk of not receiving the same level of health care in the diagnosis, treatment and preventive services that the average population receives in host communities. Health care services are…

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.

Migration: A Social Determinant of the Health of Migrants

2009 Background/ Discussion paper English
Author/s: Anita Davies, Anna Basten, Chiara Frattini

This paper examines the relationship between migration and health from a human-rights and social equity based perspective. It discussed how migrationcan itself be seen as a determinant of migrants' health. Migrants are affected by social inequalities and are likely to go through several experiences during the migration process which puts their physical, mental and social well-being at risk. Migrants often face poverty and social exclusion, which has negative influences on…

Building Capacity for the Health of Europe's Roma Communities

2008 Workshop/ Conference/ Seminar Presentation English
Author/s: Jennifer Hollings, Árpád Baráth, István Szilárd, Roumyana Petrova-Benedict

This document was presented during the Second Conference on Migrant Health in Europe held in Malmö, Sweden on 22 May 2008.

Speakers:

Jennifer Hollings, Migration Health, IOM Brussels
Árpád Baráth, University of Pécs
István Szilárd, University of Pécs
Roumyana Petrova-Benedict, Migration Health Department, IOM