Ensuring health equity of marginalized populations: experiences from mainstreaming the health of migrants.

Migrants around the world significantly contribute to the economies of countries of origin and destination alike. Despite the growing number of migrants in today's globalized world, the conditions in which migrants travel, live and work can carry exceptional risks to their physical and mental well-being. These risks are often linked to restrictive immigration and employment policies, economic and social factors and dominant anti-migrant sentiments in societies, and are often referred to as the social determinants of migrants' health.

Panel 2.7: first 30 days: organizing rapid responses.

This is a summary of the presentations and discussion of Panel 2.7, First 30 Days: Organizing Rapid Response of the Conference, Health Aspects of the Tsunami Disaster in Asia, convened by the World Health Organization (WHO) in Phuket, Thailand, 04-06 May 2005. The topics discussed included issues related to organizing rapid responses as pertain to the responses to the damage created by the Tsunami.

Results of tuberculosis screening in applicants for migration in Vietnam and Cambodia.

Setting: Pre-migration medical screening programmes in Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam and Phnom Penh, Cambodia.

Objective: To compare the rates of newly diagnosed bacteriologically confirmed tuberculosis (TB) in a cohort of migration applicants in Vietnam and Cambodia with current estimates of the TB burden in these countries.

Design: Interviews and medical screening of 5108 Vietnamese and 910 Cambodian migration applicants who applied for an Australian visa.