Table of Contents

Introduction
Glossary
Part One Process of Migration and Population Mobility
1. A New Framework for the Rational Management of Health…
2. Historical Perspective of Migration and Disease
3. Globalization and Population Mobility: Demographics, Biometrics and Health
4. Institutional Processes of Migration
5. Current Politics and Policies of Migration
6. The Rights of Migrant, Refugees and Asylum Seekers
7. Irregular Migration, Human Smuggling and Trafficking
8. Complex Humanitarian Emergencies and Other Crisis Situations
9. Screening of Migrants
10. Long-term Consequences of Migration: Generational Effects
11. Health Policies/National Responses to Migrants
12. Social Aspects of Migrant Health
13 Health Culture, Diseases and Illness
14 Abnormal Behaviour
Part Two Science and Epidemiology of Migration Health
15 Non Communicable Diseases
16 Infectious Disease Issues
17 Women and Girls
18 Children and Unaccompanied Minors
19 Illegal and Undocumented Migrants
20 Other Migrants at Health Risk – Special Traveler Groups
21 Other Migrants at Health Risk – Long-term Temporary Residents Abroad: Ex-patriots, Missionaries and Humanitarian Workers
22 Implications of Violence and Trauma in Mobile Populations
Part Three Practice of Migration Health in Today’s World
23 Surveillance and Data Collection in Public Health
24 Approach to the Migrant as a Patient
25 Providing Care to Families
26 Reaching Single Migrants
27 Health Concept Issues Related to Return and Repatriation
28 Rethinking Public Health in a Global Mobility Context
29 Improving Access to Health…
30 Occupational Health and Labour Issues
31 Communities
32 The Use of Interpreters for Migrant Patients
33 Ethical Issues in Migration Medicine
34 Cultural Competence for the Third Millenium
35 Migration Medicine: an Agenda for the Future
Part Four
Appendix (Tables)

About the Author

Brian Gushulak MD Douglas MacPherson MD