IOM - Migration Health

Going for a routine check-up at the local health care centre
© Suomi Punainen Risti 2004, Mauri Ratilainen

IOM's migration health activities aim to reduce and better manage the health consequences of infectious and non-infectious migration-related diseases. Assisting Member States in managing some of the medical concerns related to migration, through medical screening and the evaluation of migrants and refugees being processed for resettlement, constitutes IOM's largest health activity. The evolution of new and more complicated challenges posed by disease and ill health in migrant populations, together with faster methods of travel and changing migration patterns, requires continual review and modernization of medical screening and evaluation practices. Delivering appropriate services, sometimes in difficult locations, necessitates close co-operation between IOM and national health and immigration agencies as well as international partners.

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