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ReviewLancet (London, England)2018

The UCL-Lancet Commission on Migration and Health: the health of a world on the move.

Ibrahim Abubakar, Robert W Aldridge, Delan Devakumar, Miriam Orcutt, Rachel Burns, Mauricio L Barreto, Poonam Dhavan, Fouad M Fouad, Nora Groce, Yan Guo and 15 more

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Review in Lancet (London, England), 2018. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 418 papers, 15 of them syntheses that pooled it.

0numbers the graph read from it
0cells of the map it votes in
418citing papers in PubMed, 15 pooled it
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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.

The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.

Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.

3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

418 citing papers in PubMed, 15 syntheses or guidelines pooled it.

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  8. Electronic Personal Health Records for Mobile Populations: A Rapid Systematic Literature Review.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2025
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  19. Towards System Changes: Experiences of General Practitioners and Nurses in Facilitating Appointments and Referrals for Africans from Refugee Backgrounds in Australia.Health promotion journal of Australia : official journal of Australian Association of Health Promotion Professionals · 2026
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358 more citing papers are in PubMed but not listed here.

4 · The record

Corrections and comments

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

25 authors.

Ibrahim AbubakarInstitute for Global Health, University College London, London, UK. Electronic address: i.abubakar@ucl.ac.uk.
Robert W AldridgeInstitute for Health Informatics, University College London, London, UK.
Delan DevakumarInstitute for Global Health, University College London, London, UK.
Miriam OrcuttInstitute for Global Health, University College London, London, UK.
Rachel BurnsInstitute for Global Health, University College London, London, UK.
Mauricio L BarretoCentre for Data and Knowledge Integration for Health, Fundação Oswaldo Cruz, Salvador-Bahia, Brazil.
Poonam DhavanInternational Organization for Migration, Geneva, Switzerland.
Fouad M FouadFaculty of Health Sciences, American University of Beirut, Beirut, Lebanon.
Nora GroceLeonard Cheshire Centre, Institute of Epidemiology and Healthcare, University College London, London, UK.
Yan GuoSchool of Public Health, Peking University, Beijing, China.
Sally HargreavesInstitute of Infection and Immunity, St George's, University of London, London, UK; International Health Unit, Section of Infectious Diseases and Immunity, Imperial College London, London, UK.
Michael KnipperInstitute for the History of Medicine, Justus Liebig University Giessen, Giessen, Germany.
J Jaime MirandaCRONICAS Center of Excellence in Chronic Diseases, Universidad Peruana Cayetano Heredia, Lima, Peru.
Nyovani MadiseAfrican Institute for Development Policy, Lilongwe, Malawi; Centre for Global Health, Population, Poverty and Policy, University of Southampton, Southampton, UK.
Bernadette KumarNorwegian Centre for Minority Health Research, Oslo, Norway; Department of Community Medicine and Global Health, Institute of Health and Society, Faculty of Medicine, University of Oslo, Oslo, Norway.
Davide MoscaInternational Organization for Migration, Geneva, Switzerland.
Terry McGovernProgram on Global Health Justice and Governance, Mailman School of Public Health, Columbia University, New York, NY, USA.
Leonard RubensteinCenter for Public Health and Human Rights, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD, USA; Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, and Berman Institute of Bioethics, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD, USA.
Peter SammondsInstitute for Risk and Disaster Reduction, University College London, London, UK.
Susan M SawyerDepartment of Paediatrics, University of Melbourne, University of Melbourne, Parkville, VIC, Australia; Centre for Adolescent Health, and Murdoch Children's Research Institute, Royal Children's Hospital, Parkville, VIC, Australia.
Kabir SheikhPublic Health Foundation of India, Institutional Area Gurgaon, India; Nossal Institute of Global Health, University of Melbourne, Melbourne, VIC, Australia.
Stephen TollmanMRC/Wits Rural Public Health and Health Transitions Research Unit, School of Public Health, Faculty of Health Sciences, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa.
Paul SpiegelDepartment of International Health, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD, USA; Johns Hopkins Center for Humanitarian Health, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD, USA.
Cathy ZimmermanGender, Violence and Health Centre, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, London, UK.
UCL–Lancet Commission on Migration and Health

Funding

Medical Research CouncilWellcome Trust 206602Wellcome Trust 206602/Z/17/Z
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

PubMed holds no abstract for this paper.

Indexed as

Global HealthConsensusEmigrants and ImmigrantsFemaleHuman RightsHumansMaleRefugeesRural PopulationSex DistributionUrban Population

Identifiers

PMID30528486
PMCPMC7612863

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Registered trials

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Read under generation 80e0d062 · epoch 390. Bibliography from PubMed, PubMed Central and OpenAlex; grants from NIH RePORTER; trial links from ClinicalTrials.gov; estimates, votes and beliefs from the OpenQuestion graph.