(Routledge Studies in Development, Mobilities and Migration) 1st Edition
by Peter H. Koehn (Author)
Transnational Mobility and Global Health
spotlights the powerful and dynamic intersections of human movement,
inequality, and health. The book explores the interacting political,
economic, social, cultural, and climatic drivers of health and
migration, proposing innovative ways to enhance global health and care
provision in an era of transnational mobility. As health security
continues to rise up the agenda in international politics, the book also
analyses the political determinants of health and migration.
Within
the framework of key drivers of unequal mobilities, this book treats
interconnected health and migration themes not covered elsewhere under
one cover: health tourism, conflict-induced and other
vulnerable-population movements, humanitarian crises, human rights, the
health-development linkage, migrant health-care, and health-competency
education. The book also considers global health vulnerabilities in the
wake of climate change, and the biomedical, ethical, and governance
challenges of emerging and reemerging infectious diseases. Finally, the
book suggests ways of evaluating mobility-influenced health outcomes and
equity impacts, and explores how the global circulation of health
expertise could help to rectify care-provider shortages.
The
challenges to global health considered in this book are only likely to
become more intense as the 21st-Century surge in transnational migration
continues. Readers will gain interdisciplinary appreciation for the
relevance of health for migration and of migration for global health.
Researchers, students, practitioners, and policy makers interested in
individual and population health, sustainable development, and migration
studies will find this book a useful and inspiring guide to
contemporary global challenges.
