Migration and Health in Asia

<p>The processes of migration and health are inextricably linked in complex ways with migration impacting on the mental and physical health of individuals and communities. Health itself can be a motivation for moving or a reason for staying and migration can have implications on the health of those who move those who are left behind and the communities that receive migrants.</p><p>This volume brings together some of the increasing number of researchers who are studying health and migration in Asia - a continent which is a major exporter and importer of human resources. Using both quantitative and qualitative approaches the essays included in this work investigate the interdisciplinary issues of health and health-related behaviours in the field of migration. </p><p>Comprehensive and scholarly<em> Migration and Health in Asia</em> also covers major themes such as the pandemics of HIV/AIDS and SARS differential access to health and civil society for migrants and the health of the populations who are left behind. </p>