692 - How Migration Affects Human Health
Public Health On Call
The Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health
4.6 • 644 Ratings
🗓️ 27 November 2023
⏱️ 16 minutes
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Summary
Our individual health is shaped by the environments we live in. So what does that mean for the more than 280 million people worldwide who have moved across country borders from the place of their birth? Johns Hopkins Health Policy and Management assistant professor Catherine Ettman, who recently edited the book Migration and Health, talks with Stephanie Desmon about the many factors that impact the health of migrants, including whether they've moved by choice or to escape conflict or natural disaster.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to Public Health On Call, a podcast from the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, |
| 0:05.9 | where we bring evidence, experience, and perspective to make sense of today's leading health challenges. |
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| 0:31.6 | This is Lindsay Smith Rogers. |
| 0:33.9 | Today, the topic is migration and how the movement of humans affects their health. |
| 0:39.6 | Stephanie Desmond talks to Johns Hopkins, Catherine Etman, who edited a book on the topic |
| 0:44.7 | published by the University of Chicago Press about the opportunities and challenges of all |
| 0:50.3 | this moving around, the health issues that migrants face, and what happens to the physical |
| 0:55.7 | and mental health of those displaced by war? Let's listen. |
| 1:00.7 | Catherine Etman, thanks so much for joining me. Thank you for having me. |
| 1:05.0 | So today, our topic is migration and health, which I think we could probably talk about for |
| 1:09.4 | days and days. You have edited a book about this. You've done a lot of writing about this, which I think we could probably talk about for days and days. You have edited |
| 1:11.5 | a book about this. You've done a lot of writing about this. And I wanted to talk to you about, |
| 1:17.0 | basically, let's start off easy, which is what does migration and health mean? |
| 1:21.9 | Migration is an important demographic trend in this century. More than 280 million people live in a different |
| 1:30.2 | country than the one in which they were born. If you were to add up all of the international |
| 1:36.0 | migrants in the world right now, they would be the fifth largest country in the world. So this is a |
| 1:43.1 | large group, and this group of individuals has had diverse |
| 1:46.6 | experiences that require unique health considerations. So really, you're looking at how the way we |
| 1:54.2 | move around affects our health. I go straight to thinking about immigrants and also like folks |
| 2:00.5 | who are displaced by war. |
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