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Refugees and migrants often suffer from poor health and have challenges accessing services due to discrimination; poor living conditions; and financial, linguistic and cultural barriers.
20 de jul. de 2022 · This groundbreaking publication outlines current and future opportunities and challenges and provides several strategies to improve the health and well-being of refugees and migrants. It is an advocacy tool for national and international policy-makers involved in health and migration.
2 de may. de 2022 · Migration could both improve or diminish an individual’s health status. Refugees and migrants often face worse health outcomes in countries of transit and destination due to barriers including language and cultural differences, institutional discrimination and restricted use of health services.
The WHO Health and Migration Programme (PHM) developed the Refugee and Migrant Health: Global Competency Standards for Health Workers (the Standards) in close collaboration with the WHO Health Workforce Department to promote the provision of people-centred health care to all refugees and migrants.
14 de may. de 2024 · The aim of this article is to describe and contrast the response of the health systems of Mexico, Colombia and Perú to migrants' and refugees' health needs during the COVID-19 pandemic, and to situate the response in the context of the migration and health policies of each country.
30 de may. de 2024 · Refugee and migrant health. Today there are some 1 billion migrants globally, about 1 in 8 of the global population. These include 281 million international migrants and 82.4 million forcibly displaced (48 million internally displaced, 26.4 million refugees, 4.1 million asylum seekers) (1).
Achieving universal health coverage for refugee and migrant populations requires strong health systems with competent health workers who are trained, supported and empowered to provide the care needed. Competence is the state of proficiency to perform work activities to a defined standard.
