ArticleJournal of migration and health2022
Promoting labour migrant health equity through action on the structural determinants: A systematic review.
Article in Journal of migration and health, 2022. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 5 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.
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- Healthcare services for low-wage migrant workers: A systematic review.Social science & medicine (1982) · 2025Pooled it
- What is the perception of treatment in some European mental health services? The point of view of users belonging to ethnic minorities.Frontiers in psychology · 2026Review
- The social determinants of migrant domestic worker (MDW) health and well-being in the Western Pacific Region: A Scoping Review.PLOS global public health · 2024Article
- Protecting and promoting the rights of the 'reserve army of labour': a policy analysis of structural determinants of migrant worker health in Pakistan and Qatar.Health policy and planning · 2023Article
- Structural Competency and Agricultural Health and Safety: An Opportunity to Foster Equity within Agriculture.Journal of agromedicine · 2023Article
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Abstract
backgroundLabour migrants, who represent over sixty per cent of international migrants globally, frequently have poorer health status than the population of host countries. These health inequities are determined in a large part by structural drivers including political, commercial, economic, normative and social factors, including living and working conditions. Achieving health equity for migrant workers requires structural-level interventions to address these determinants.
methodsWe undertook a systematic review of peer-reviewed literature designed to answer the question "what is the evidence for the effectiveness of interventions to address the structural determinants of health for labour migrants?" using the Ovid Medline electronic database.
findingsWe found only two papers that evaluated structural interventions to improve the health of labour migrants. Both papers evaluated the impact of insurance - health or social. In contrast, we found 19 evaluations of more proximal, small-scale interventions focused on changing the knowledge, attitudes and behaviours of labour migrants.
interpretationDespite the rise in international migration, including for work, and evidence that labour migrants have some higher health risks, there is a paucity of research addressing the structural determinants of health inequities in labour migrants. The research community (including funders and academic institutions) needs to pay greater attention to the structural determinants of health - which generally requires working across disciplines and sectors and thinking more politically about health and health inequities.
fundingWellcome Trust (208712/Z/17/Z).
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