Transients and Migrants
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Monday, November 23, 2009

[Migration, climate and health]

24 Oct 2009 Many tentative connections have been postulated between migration and climate. This article points to rural-urban migration, particularly into low elevation urban slums prone to flooding as an issue needing urgent attention by health professionals. ... Read more...

Migration and hypertension: a cross-sectional study among neo-migrants and settled-migrants in Delhi, India.

29 Sep 2009 Understanding the blood pressure (BP) distribution within populations is fundamental to an understanding of the etiology of cardiovascular diseases and to develop effective preventive strategies. This study focuses on whether the BP levels and ... Read more...

Pandemic influenza and farmworkers: the effects of employment, social, and economic factors.

29 Sep 2009 Employment, social, and economic factors have the potential to affect the magnitude of an influenza pandemic among farmworkers. Prevention efforts targeted toward livestock farmworkers, including increased access to seasonal influenza vaccine, risk ... Read more...

Latest indexed articles for 'Transients and Migrants'

These are the very latest articles for this heading:

• Not our problem. 30 Oct 2009
• [Migration, climate and health] 24 Oct 2009
• Migration and hypertension: a cross-sectional study among neo-migrants and settled-migrants in Delhi, India. 29 Sep 2009
• Pandemic influenza and farmworkers: the effects of employment, social, and economic factors. 29 Sep 2009
• Migrants in Europe are losing out on care they are entitled to. 22 Sep 2009
• Left too early: the effects of age at separation from parents on Chinese rural children's symptoms of anxiety and depression. 15 Sep 2009
• Prenatal care disparities and the migrant farm worker community. 30 Aug 2009
• Paddy and Biddy no more: an evolutionary analysis of the decline in Irish Catholic forenames among descendants of 19th century Irish migrants to Britain. 30 Aug 2009
• Endurance of aloneness among Tibetan indigenous women in Western China: application of repeat focus group discussions as a tool for empowerment and for data collection. 30 Aug 2009
• Effect of anxiety symptoms on adherence to highly active antiretroviral therapy in HIV-infected women. 30 Aug 2009
• Exposure of seasonal migrant workers to Onchocerca volvulus on coffee plantations in Guatemala. 30 Aug 2009
• Meeting the health needs of trafficked persons. 24 Aug 2009
• The health and health system of South Africa: historical roots of current public health challenges. 22 Aug 2009
• Migration to western industrialised countries and perinatal health: a systematic review. 3 Aug 2009
• Dirty work. Aug 2009
• Overseas trained nurses' perception of UK nurses' caring attitudes: a qualitative study. 30 Jul 2009
• Unfulfilled postpartum sterilization requests. 30 Jul 2009
• Countries race to contain resistance to key antimalarial. 23 Jul 2009
• Imported subclinical house dust mite sensitisation in migrants from geohelminth-endemic developing countries. 21 Jul 2009
• Gender differences in intimate partner violence and alcohol use among Latino-migrant and seasonal farmworkers in rural southeastern North Carolina. 29 Jun 2009

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Technical information about 'Transients and Migrants'

Definition: People who frequently change their place of residence.

Descriptor UI: D014171

Alternative terms: Transients and Migrants; Migrants and Transients; Migrant Workers; Migrant Worker; Worker, Migrant; Workers, Migrant; Transients; Transient; Nonmigrants; Nonmigrant; Squatters; Squatter; Illegal Migrants; Migrants; Migrant; Nomads; Nomad;

Related Mesh Headings: Homeless Persons;

Allowable Qualifiers: classification; education; history; legislation & jurisprudence; psychology; statistics & numerical data;

Tree Number: M01.920;

Technical Notes: specify geog if possible; DF: TRANSIENTS