Global Health Watch - access to health care for migrants

Outline for case studies.

The Global Health Watch provides an alternative assessment of the gross inequalities in health worldwide, "watches" the institutions of global health and development governance, and makes recommendations for new approaches to some of the most intractable health problems in the world today.

We would like to ensure that people's health issues and indigenous health issues are reflected within the second edition of Global Health Watch, and would like your assistance and input in writing and sourcing human interest stories written in a simple narrative style. Where it is not possible to integrate stories submitted within chapters, we will put them on the web site. We would like both positive and negative stories, successes and failures, etc.

Please forward this request on this call to others and encourage people to write up their experiences. Case studies and human interest stories can be forwarded to ghw@hst.org.za.

Chapter on on access to health care for migrants

1. Experiences of forced migration

2. Who migrates and why and implications for health:

- reasons behind migration: insecurity, poverty etc.

- numbers of migrants: refugees, IDPs

- where are they?

3. Access to health care: issues for migrants in

- camps (refugee & IDP)

- peri-urban and urban areas (as a result of mass migration)

- countries with a highly controlled immigration policy (eg compulsory HIV / TB screening)

4. Migrants access to health care: ensuring rights & equal access to health care -

- examples of denial of access

- examples where rights to access have been protected

- what can be done: recommendations for ensuring access in the future.