Migration and Health by Sandro Galea, Catherine K. Ettman, Mu... - 9780226822501

Name: Migration and Health by Sandro Galea, Catherine K. Ettman, Mu... - 9780226822501
Brand: The University of Chicago Press

The University of Chicago Press

Migration and HealthAuthor(s): Sandro Galea, Catherine K. Ettman, Muhammad H. Zaman\nFormat: Paperback\nPublisher: The University of Chicago Press, United States\nImprint: University of Chicago Press\nISBN-13: 9780226822501, 978-0226822501\nSynopsis\nA new introduction to a timeless dynamic: how the movement of humans affects health everywhere.\n\n International migrants compose more than three percent of the worlds population, and internal migrantsthose migrating within countriesare more than triple that number. Population migration has long been, and remains today, one of the central demographic shifts shaping the world around us. The worlds historyand its healthis shaped and colored by stories of migration patterns, the policies and political events that drive these movements, and narratives of individual migrants.\n\nMigration and Health offers the most expansive framework to date for understanding and reckoning with human migrations implications for public health and its determi.