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Migrating Children: The Need for Comprehensive Integrated Health Prevention Measures

  • Pediatric Global Health (D Nguyen and A Mandalakas, Section Editors)
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Abstract

Purpose of the Review

Millions of children have migrated across borders with more than half of these children fleeing violence. The purpose of this review is to highlight the health issues that these children face. While the amount of sheer trauma that these children experience is astounding, there are policies and clinical models that could be developed and implemented to improve the health and well-being of these children.

Recent Findings

Community-based clinical models that provide culturally sensitive health care with links to mental health, legal services, and language services are one way to mitigate the effects of the health inequities that immigrant children and their families face.

Summary

A more comprehensive understanding of the effect of resiliency in these children would help to inform interventional programs that could promote resiliency and improve long-term outcomes. As institutional, local, national, and international policy decisions affect the health of migrating children, policies at every level should include provisions for children.

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    Padma Swamy, Eric A. Russell & Anna M. Mandalakas

  2. Department of Pediatrics, University of Texas Rio Grande Valley School of Medicine, Edinburg, TX, USA

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Swamy, P., Russell, E.A., Mandalakas, A.M. et al. Migrating Children: The Need for Comprehensive Integrated Health Prevention Measures. Curr Trop Med Rep 5, 96–103 (2018). https://doi.org/10.1007/s40475-018-0142-x

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