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Author Koehn, Peter H., author

Title Transnational mobility and global health : traversing borders and boundaries / Peter H. Koehn
Published London : Routledge, 2018

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Description 1 online resource (236 pages)
Series Routledge studies in development, mobilities and migration
Routledge studies in development, mobilities, and migration.
Contents Forewords by Ilona Kickbusch, Susan F. Martin, & Unni Karaunakara -- Introduction: The Interconnected Nature of Contemporary Population Movements and Global Health -- 1. Transnational Travel as Health Insurance -- 2. Health Challenges for Refugees and Conflict-induced Migrants: Transit Conditions, Camps, and Settlements -- 3. Health Challenges for Other Survival Migrants on the Move North: Transit Conditions and Detention Centers -- 4. Migrant Health in Northern Reception Countries -- 5. Migration, Health, and Sustainable-development Linkages: Exploring Southern Contexts -- 6. Pathogens Without Borders: ERIDs as Privilege Leveler? -- 7. Climate Change, Health, and Migration: The Wild Card in the Deck -- 8. Where Should We "Move" from Here? 21st Century Global-health Education and Service
Summary Transnational Mobility and Global Health spotlights the powerful and dynamic intersections of human movement, inequality, and health. The book explores the interacting political, economic, social, cultural, and climatic drivers of health and migration, proposing innovative ways to enhance global health and care provision in an era of transnational mobility. As health security continues to rise up the agenda in international politics, the book also analyses the political determinants of health and migration. Within the framework of key drivers of unequal mobilities, this book treats interconnected health and migration themes not covered elsewhere under one cover: health tourism, conflict-induced and other vulnerable-population movements, humanitarian crises, human rights, the health-development linkage, migrant health-care, and health-competency education. The book also considers global health vulnerabilities in the wake of climate change, and the biomedical, ethical, and governance challenges of emerging and reemerging infectious diseases. Finally, the book suggests ways of evaluating mobility-influenced health outcomes and equity impacts, and explores how the global circulation of health expertise could help to rectify care-provider shortages. The challenges to global health considered in this book are only likely to become more intense as the 21st-Century surge in transnational migration continues. Readers will gain interdisciplinary appreciation for the relevance of health for migration and of migration for global health. Researchers, students, practitioners, and policy makers interested in individual and population health, sustainable development, and migration studies will find this book a useful and inspiring guide to contemporary global challenges
Subject Social medicine.
Immigrants -- Medical care
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Developing Countries.
Borders.
Displacement.
Global Health.
Global South.
Humanitarian medicine.
Infectious diseases.
Migration.
Mobilities.
Refugees.
Resettlement.
resilience.
Transnationality.
Immigrants -- Medical care
Social medicine
Social services & welfare, criminology.
Development studies.
Migration, immigration & emigration.
Health, relationships & personal development.
Public health & preventive medicine.
Popular medicine & health.
Development economics & emerging economies.
Health and Wellbeing.
Form Electronic book
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