Migration and Health

A Companion to Health and Medical Geography

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages 346-374

  Boyle, Paul ^a   Norman, Paul ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ST ANDREWS   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LEEDS   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

"Salmon bias" and paradox of Hispanic mortality in United States; European Academies Science Advisory Council (EASAC 2007); Governments struggling to balance costs and benefits of mobilities; Health selective migration and understanding population health; Migration and health; Migration and its role in health studies; Migration, disease, and public health; Scapegoating of immigrant groups; Social, economic, and political consequences of such mobility difficult to quantify; Spread of disease migrants playing a major role in our understanding of health

Indexed keywords

EID: 78651330742     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1002/9781444314762.ch19     Document Type: Chapter

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