Migrants' access to COVID-19 vaccination in Japan: Progress and challenges.

Objectives: This study aimed to review the progress and challenges of COVID-19 vaccine roll-out for migrants in Japan and discuss the approaches to address the challenges and better prepare for future waves of COVID-19 and other pandemics.

Methods: We conducted a literature review using an assessment framework which we developed building upon existing frameworks and tools on access to health services and COVID-19 vaccination among migrants.

Results: COVID-19 vaccination coverage among foreigners might be lower than that of nationals although the data on foreigners were not widely available.

Social support as a bridge: A rapid realist review of migrant inclusion in the Japanese response to the COVID-19 pandemic.

Government policy to address the COVID-19 pandemic has been complex with profound impacts on vulnerable minorities like international migrants. In Japan migrants are an important and growing community but their consideration in health policy is rare. We conducted a rapid realist review about 'what works' for the equitable inclusion of migrants during the pandemic as a case study for other public health emergencies.

Evaluating Local Multilingual Health Care Information Environments on the Internet: A Pilot Study.

For foreign-born populations, difficulty in finding health care information in their primary language is a structural barrier to accessing timely health care. While such information may be available at a national level, it may not always be relevant or appropriate to the living situations of these people. Our objective was to explore the quality of online multilingual health information environments by pilot-testing a framework for assessing such information at the prefectural level in Japan.