Immigrants’ health is the subject of growing attention on the part of researchers in social epidemiology and other medical fields. Its interest depends mainly on the tumultuous increase of migration phenomenon in recent years that mostly affected the European countries, due to political, economic, and climatic reasons, often mutually connected. Therefore, alongside the studies of health conditions of stable immigrants’ population (regular residents) other research fields, more challenging, have arisen, regarding the health of undocumented migrants or migrants on the move from their country of origin to their final destination, or during their stay in reception centers or at cross-borders settings.
Frontiers in Public Health is interested in receiving articles about immigrants' health in Europe exploring either health outcomes and healthcare access using quantitative or qualitative analyses among three main research areas:
1. Resident immigrants (regular immigrants)
2. Undocumented migrants
3. Migrants on the move to their final destination or at cross-borders spontaneous settings
Researchers could also provide methodological indications relating primarily to areas 2 and 3, about standardization of information to be collected and methodological indications on the analyses to be done in contexts where it is difficult to accurately define the population from which the study subjects derive.
The Authors should document immigrants' health in Europe concerning:
1. resident immigrants: up-dated analyses should consider migrants’ ethnicity and possibly individual length of stay in the host country as well as socio-economic status. Interest should also be reserved for the evaluation of social integration in the country, measured at the individual level or collectively. The health of second generations is relevant, with particular attention to mental health, injuries and violence, addictions, and teenagers’ pregnancies
2. Undocumented migrants: the study of this population health should be preferably related to country-specific immigrant health policies.
3.The documentation of migrants' health collected at their arrival in reception centers in the host country should provide information about health conditions among those who have succeeded to arrive and the persistence (or otherwise) of the “healthy migrant effect” among them. The Authors should collect information in a given period, describing the characteristics of the population arrived and, possibly, type and length of the journey to arrive in the host country.
Papers about the health conditions of migrants on the move to their destination or at cross-borders spontaneous settings are also of great interest, in an area where little published documentation is available.
Immigrants’ health is the subject of growing attention on the part of researchers in social epidemiology and other medical fields. Its interest depends mainly on the tumultuous increase of migration phenomenon in recent years that mostly affected the European countries, due to political, economic, and climatic reasons, often mutually connected. Therefore, alongside the studies of health conditions of stable immigrants’ population (regular residents) other research fields, more challenging, have arisen, regarding the health of undocumented migrants or migrants on the move from their country of origin to their final destination, or during their stay in reception centers or at cross-borders settings.
Frontiers in Public Health is interested in receiving articles about immigrants' health in Europe exploring either health outcomes and healthcare access using quantitative or qualitative analyses among three main research areas:
1. Resident immigrants (regular immigrants)
2. Undocumented migrants
3. Migrants on the move to their final destination or at cross-borders spontaneous settings
Researchers could also provide methodological indications relating primarily to areas 2 and 3, about standardization of information to be collected and methodological indications on the analyses to be done in contexts where it is difficult to accurately define the population from which the study subjects derive.
The Authors should document immigrants' health in Europe concerning:
1. resident immigrants: up-dated analyses should consider migrants’ ethnicity and possibly individual length of stay in the host country as well as socio-economic status. Interest should also be reserved for the evaluation of social integration in the country, measured at the individual level or collectively. The health of second generations is relevant, with particular attention to mental health, injuries and violence, addictions, and teenagers’ pregnancies
2. Undocumented migrants: the study of this population health should be preferably related to country-specific immigrant health policies.
3.The documentation of migrants' health collected at their arrival in reception centers in the host country should provide information about health conditions among those who have succeeded to arrive and the persistence (or otherwise) of the “healthy migrant effect” among them. The Authors should collect information in a given period, describing the characteristics of the population arrived and, possibly, type and length of the journey to arrive in the host country.
Papers about the health conditions of migrants on the move to their destination or at cross-borders spontaneous settings are also of great interest, in an area where little published documentation is available.