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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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Presumptive Treatment to Reduce Imported Malaria among Refugees from East Africa Resettling in the United States
Author/s: Christina Phares, Bryan Kapella, Annelise Doney, Paul Arguin, Michael Green, Leul Mekonnen, Aleksander Galev, Michelle Weinberg, William Stauffer
Abstract: During May 4, 2007–February 29, 2008, the United States resettled 6,159 refugees from Tanzania. Refugees received pre-departure antimalarial treatment with sulfadoxine-pyrimethamine (SP), partially supervised (three/six doses) artemether-lumefantrine (AL), or fully supervised AL. Thirty-nine malaria cases were detected. Disease incidence was 15.5/1,000 in the SP group and 3.2/1,000 in the partially supervised AL group (relative change = –79%, 95% confidence…
Read more‘Dye mon, gen mon’ (‘Beyond the mountains, more mountains’). Social theatre, community mobilisation and participation after disasters: The International Organization for Migration experience in Haiti, after January 2010's earthquake
Author/s: Guglielmo Schininà, Justin Voltaire, Amal Ataya, Marie-Adele Salem
In January 2010, IOM was aked to lead the cluster co-ordinatg humanitarian agencies involved in the management of the camps and to provide various forms of assistance, including psychosocial, to the populations living in them. The IOM psychosocial response plan has since focused on community mobilization and participation, and has used the arts and socialtheatre wifdely as tools.
Health, migration and border management: analysis and capacity-building at Europe’s borders
Author/s: Jennifer Hollings, Mariya Samuilova, Roumyana Petrova-Benedict
Three key elements were analysed in Hungary, Poland and Slovakia as a basis for strengthening the capacity of staff and structures related to health, migration and border management: public health concerns linked to migration, health needs and rights of migrants and the occupational health of staff.
This article was developed within the framework of the “Increasing Public Health Safety alongside the New Eastern European Border Line” project (PHBLM…
Read moreThe Dynamics of Health and Return Migration
Author/s: Anita Davies, Rosilyne Borland, Carolyn Blake, Haley West
This article will focus on the risk factors and social determinants of health during all phases of migration that can impact the health of returnees. It will highlight the diversity of returning migrants and illustrate through examples how return migration can influence the health of individuals and populations. The paper will conclude with policy recommendations for healthy return migration.
Social determinants and risk factors for non-communicable diseases (NCDs) in South Asian migrant populations in Europe
Author/s: Anita Davies, Carolyn Blake, Poonam Dhavan
In Europe, policies, strategies and interventions to address the growing burden of non-communicable diseases have generally neglected to take into consideration the impact of migration on health outcomes of increasingly multicultural and diverse societies. Research has shown that migrants of South Asian origin living in Europe are more at risk of acquiring non-communicable diseases than their counterparts in their country of origin or than the host European population.…
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