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A New Focus on Migration Health

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The Economic Geography of Cross-Border Migration

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Kumar and Krasnik bring together migration and health as two fundamental issues in past and present global human development. The evolution of migrant health as a discipline is traced, commencing with a focus from infectious diseases and biological/genetic differences moving towards broader health issues including chronic and mental diseases. Main concepts and theories that have dominated the field so far are presented and existing evidence on how migration affects health are discussed, including the importance of life course perspectives. The chapter explores the implications and challenges for equity in access to and quality of health care. Finally, Kumar and Krasnik discuss the recent international policy developments and recommendations for improving migrant and ethnic minority health.

NOTE TERMINOLOGY: We have developed a Glossary for MIGRATION HEALTH (MERH 2018) and it will form the basis; “cross border” means “International Migrants”.

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  1. Norwegian Institute of Public Health, Oslo, Norway

    Bernadette N. Kumar

  2. Department of Public Health, University of Copenhagen, Research Centre for Migration, Ethnicity and Health, Copenhagen, Denmark

    Allan Krasnik

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Kumar, B.N., Krasnik, A. (2021). A New Focus on Migration Health. In: Kourtit, K., Newbold, B., Nijkamp, P., Partridge, M. (eds) The Economic Geography of Cross-Border Migration. Footprints of Regional Science(). Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-48291-6_15

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