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The contribution of a gender perspective to the understanding of migrants’ health: Table 1

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Llácer, Alicia, Zunzunegui, María Victoria, del Amo, Julia, Mazarrasa, Lucía, Bolůmar, Francisco·2007·Journal of Epidemiology and Community Health
DOI 10.1136/jech.2007.061770PMC PMC2465778
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In 2005 women represented approximately half of all 190 million international migrants worldwide. This paper addresses the need to integrate a gender perspective into epidemiological studies on migration and health, outlines conceptual gaps and discusses some methodological problems. We mainly consider the international voluntary migrant. Women may emigrate as wives or as workers in a labour market in which they face double segregation, both as migrants and as women. We highlight migrant women’s heightened vulnerability to situations of violence, as well as important gaps in our knowledge of the possible differential health effects of factors such as poverty, unemployment, social networks and support, discrimination, health behaviours and use of services. We provide an overview of the problems of characterising migrant populations in the health information systems, and of possible biases in the health effects caused by failure to take the triple dimension of gender, social class and ethnicity into account.

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Authors
Llácer, A., Zunzunegui, M. V., del Amo, J., Mazarrasa, L., & Bolůmar, F.
Venue
Journal of Epidemiology and Community Health
Publisher
BMJ
Published
2007-11-13
Volume
61
Issue
Suppl 2
Pages
ii4-ii10
ISSN
  • 0141-7681 (ISSN-L)
  • 0143-005X
  • 1470-2738
DOI
10.1136/jech.2007.061770
PMC
PMC2465778
OpenAlex
W1974089863
Cited by
227
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FWCI
4.52
Type
journal article
Language
en
Open access
Locations
  • Journal of Epidemiology & Community Health (publishedVersion)
  • Europe PMC (PubMed Central) (publishedVersion)
  • PubMed Central (publishedVersion)
  • PubMed (publishedVersion)
Topics
  • Social Sciences › Sociology and Political Science › Migration, Identity, and Health
  • Social Sciences › Sociology and Political Science › Gender, Health, and Social Inequality
  • Social Sciences › Psychology › Clinical Psychology › Migration, Health and Trauma
Keywords
migrant women's health, gender perspective, violence against women, poverty, unemployment, social networks, discrimination, health care utilization, health information systems, social class, ethnicity, health disparities
MeSH terms
Female, Health Status, Health Status Indicators, Humans, Sex Factors, Transients and Migrants, Women's Health

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