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Migrant health and infectious diseases in the UK: findings from the last 10 years of surveillance
Author(s) -
Karen Wagner,
Joanne Lawrence,
Laura Anderson,
Zhong Yin,
Valérie Delpech,
Peter L. Chiodini,
C. Redman,
Jane Jones
Publication year - 2013
Publication title -
journal of public health
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.916
H-Index - 82
eISSN - 1741-3850
pISSN - 1741-3842
DOI - 10.1093/pubmed/fdt021
Subject(s) - indigenous , environmental health , population , epidemiology , public health , geography , medicine , demography , biology , sociology , pathology , ecology
Migrants account for an increasing proportion of the UK population. They are at risk of acquiring infectious diseases in their country of origin (prior to migration or during return visits), during migration, as well as in their destination country. Migrants can therefore have different risk profiles to the indigenous population.

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