从生命历程和人群健康角度填补移民健康研究的空白。
Life-course and population health perspectives to fill gaps in migrant health research.
作者信息
Ahonen Emily Q, Fujishiro Kaori
机构信息
Department of Social and Behavioral Sciences, Department of Environmental Health Science, Richard M. Fairbanks School of Public Health, Indiana University-Purdue University, Indianapolis, Indiana, 46202, USA.
Division of Field Studies and Engineering, National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH), Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), Cincinnati, 45226-1998, USA.
出版信息
Mondi Migranti. 2020;2020(3):9-20. doi: 10.3280/mm2020-003001.
This article highlights categories and dichotomies used in the study of the health of migrants, including migrant motivation, migrant type, pre- and post-migration time periods, and health as biomedically or socially determined. The authors suggest that the full spectrum of migrants and migration be considered more thoroughly in order to improve our understanding of migrant health. This paper challenges simple conceptions of migration, mobility, and migrant experience. To fill gaps in knowledge left by these conceptions, researchers must recognize the decisions migrants make as a process which plays out both over time (in migrant life-courses) and also across personal, national, and international contexts which connect the individual to larger structures and phenomena. The authors argue that, in this reality, research questions related to migrant health are best addressed using life-course perspectives which recognize health as a continuum of socially-constructed statuses.
本文重点介绍了移民健康研究中使用的类别和二分法，包括移民动机、移民类型、移民前后时期，以及由生物医学或社会因素决定的健康状况。作者建议，为了更好地理解移民健康，应更全面地考虑移民和移民现象的全貌。本文对移民、流动和移民经历的简单概念提出了挑战。为了填补这些概念留下的知识空白，研究人员必须认识到移民做出的决策是一个随着时间推移（在移民的人生历程中）以及跨越将个人与更大结构和现象联系起来的个人、国家和国际背景而展开的过程。作者认为，在这种现实情况下，与移民健康相关的研究问题最好从人生历程的角度来解决，这种角度将健康视为社会建构状态的连续体。
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