Health crises and migration

Abstract

Individual and collective responses to health crises contribute to an orderly public health response that most times precludes the need for large-scale displacements. Restricting population movement is a largely ineffective way of containing disease, yet governments sometimes resort to it where health crises emerge.

Keywords

• refugee
• IDP
• stateless
• internal displacement
• forced migration
• migration
• crisis
• health crises
• disease