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Migrant w sytuacji choroby
Migrant and diseases

Author(s): Zofia Kawczyńska-Butrym
Subject(s): Social Sciences
Published by: Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Jagiellońskiego
Keywords: health risk; migrants behaviour in case of illness; migrants’ health; migration; public health

Summary/Abstract: In the article main health problems specific for migration process and migrants strategies in case of illness were presented: self-treatment, limited access to health care services in immigration country and shifting the health care onto the country of origin. Mass migration together with migrants’ needs deprivation points at the need of inclusion of consequences of migration into the health policy of both sending and receiving countries.

  • Issue Year: 9/2011
  • Issue No: 2
  • Page Range: 113-118
  • Page Count: 6
  • Language: Polish