{"id":95,"date":"2011-01-25T08:36:00","date_gmt":"2011-01-25T08:36:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.springer.com\/ijph\/?p=95"},"modified":"2011-01-25T08:36:00","modified_gmt":"2011-01-25T08:36:00","slug":"health-of-ethnic-minorities-in-europe-and-not-only","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blogs.springer.com\/ijph\/general-public-health\/health-of-ethnic-minorities-in-europe-and-not-only\/","title":{"rendered":"Health of ethnic minorities in Europe- and not only."},"content":{"rendered":"

In an ever changing world like ours, migration is a reality that every country has to face, one way or another. According to the International Organization for Migration <\/a>(IMO), the total number of international migrants has increased\u00a0 <\/strong>over the last 10 years from about 150 <\/strong>million in 2000 to 214 <\/strong>million today, which means that one every 33 persons <\/em>in the world today is, in fact, a migrant. Migration nowadays takes many different forms,\u00a0 something which poses different challenges for the healthcare system of each country <\/a>. The importance of issues in health and health care use amongst migrants and ethnic minorities has been recognised by different bodies, such as the European Public Health Association (EUPHA), which has a section dedicated to migrant health<\/a> and the World Health Organisation (WHO) which organised a Global Consultation on Migrant Health<\/a> in Madrid a few months ago.<\/p>\n

Following this increasing need for understanding and explaining the differences in health and use of health care among different ethnicities, The International Journal of Public Health recently published a\u00a0 special issue on Health of ethnic minorities in Europe<\/a>. Professor Sijmen A. Reijneveld <\/a>wrote an Editorial for it, which is published with open access by Springer. That means you can have it for free here<\/a>!<\/p>\n

What do you think are the major\u00a0 challenges that public health professionals and policy makers have to face regarding these issues? What should future research focus on? Feel free to comment and share your experience!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

In an ever changing world like ours, migration is a reality that every country has to face, one way or another. According to the International Organization for Migration (IMO), the total number of international migrants has increased\u00a0 over the last 10 years from about 150 million in 2000 to 214 million today, which means that… Read more »<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":301,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,11],"tags":[281,419,573],"class_list":["post-95","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general-public-health","category-international-journal-of-public-health","tag-ethnic-minorities","tag-ijph-article","tag-migrant-health"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.springer.com\/ijph\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/95","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.springer.com\/ijph\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.springer.com\/ijph\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.springer.com\/ijph\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/301"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.springer.com\/ijph\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=95"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.springer.com\/ijph\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/95\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.springer.com\/ijph\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=95"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.springer.com\/ijph\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=95"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.springer.com\/ijph\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=95"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}