Can Migration Health Assessments Become a Mechanism for Global Public Health Good?

Kolitha Wickramage and Davide Mosca
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Kolitha Wickramage: International Organization for Migration, Country Office Sri Lanka, Colombo 3, Sri Lanka
Davide Mosca: Migration Health Division, the International Organization for Migration, Route des Morillons 17, Geneva, 1211 CH, Switzerland

IJERPH, 2014, vol. 11, issue 10, 1-10

Abstract: Migrant health assessments (HAs) consist of a medical examination to assess a migrant’s health status and to provide medical clearance for work or residency based on conditions defined by the destination country and/or employer. We argue that better linkages between health systems and migrant HA processors at the country level are needed to shift these from being limited as an instrument of determining non-admissibility for purposes of visa issuance, to a process that may enhance public health. The importance of providing appropriate care and follow-up of migrants who “fail” their HA and the need for global efforts to enable data-collection and research on HAs are also highlighted.

Keywords: migrant health; health assessment; tuberculosis screening; migrant rights (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: I I1 I3 Q Q5 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2014
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