University of Essex, Colchester, United Kingdom.
International Organization for Migration, Manila, Philippines.
WHO South East Asia J Public Health. 2020 Sep;9(2):107-110. doi: 10.4103/2224-3151.294303.
Migrant health has been the subject of various international agreements in recent years. In parallel, there has been a growth in academic research in this area. However, this increase in focus at international level has not necessarily strengthened the capacity to drive evidence-informed national policy and action in many low- and middle-income countries. The Migration Health South Asia (MiHSA) network aims to challenge some of the barriers to progress in the region. Examples include the bias towards institutions in high-income countries for research funding and agenda-setting and the overall lack of policy-focused research in the region. MiHSA will engage researchers, funders and policy-makers in collectively identifying the most pressing, yet feasible, research questions that could help strengthen migrant and refugee health relevant to the region's national contexts. In addition, policies and provisions for different migrant populations in the region will be reviewed from the health and rights perspectives, to identify opportunities to strategically align research agendas with the questions being asked by policy-makers. The convergence of migration policy with other areas such as health and labour at global level has created a growing imperative for policy-makers in the region to engage in cross-sector dialogue to align priorities and coordinate responses. Such responses must go beyond narrow public health interventions and embrace rights-based approaches to address the complex patterns of migration in the region, as well as migrants' precarity, vulnerabilities and agency.
近年来，移民健康一直是各种国际协议的主题。与此同时，该领域的学术研究也有所增加。然而，国际层面的这种关注度的提高，并不一定能增强许多中低收入国家推动循证国家政策和行动的能力。南亚移民健康（MiHSA）网络旨在挑战该地区进展的一些障碍。例如，研究资金和议程设定偏向高收入国家的机构，以及该地区缺乏以政策为重点的研究。MiHSA 将使研究人员、资助者和决策者共同确定最紧迫但可行的研究问题，这些问题有助于加强与该地区国家背景相关的移民和难民健康。此外，将从健康和权利的角度审查该地区不同移民群体的政策和规定，以确定在战略上使研究议程与决策者提出的问题保持一致的机会。在全球范围内，移民政策与卫生和劳工等其他领域的融合，使得该地区的政策制定者迫切需要开展跨部门对话，调整优先事项并协调应对措施。这种应对措施必须超越狭隘的公共卫生干预措施，采取基于权利的方法，解决该地区复杂的移民模式，以及移民的脆弱性和能动性。
