households. Data were collected in 2000 from 16 households with 78 members aged 3–56 years at two sites in Egypt (Cairo and an …

who participated in the 2005 Egypt Demographic Health Survey (EDHS) and a 2012 follow-up survey in rural Minya, we …

Migration of health workers from relatively poor countries has been sustained for more than half a century. The … rationale for migration has been linked to numerous factors relating to the economies and health systems of source and … destination countries. The contemporary migration of health workers is also embedded in a longstanding and intensifying culture of …

Research on the relationship between migration and infant health in Mexico finds that migration has mixed impacts on … census to analyze the association between various dimensions of community-level migration (i.e., rates of out-migration …, receipt of remittances, and return migration) and the risk of LBW and macrosomia. We examine this association using two sets …

In Moldova, large-scale and rapidly feminised migration flows have inspired a wave of qualitative reports on children … “left behind”. Despite this recent interest, few studies have empirically evaluated the effects of parental migration on the … migration seldom corresponds to worse emotional symptoms outcomes but does correspond to increased conduct problems. Separate …

Nonmigrant family members play a central role in facilitating Mexico-U.S. migration by maintaining families, sustaining … partner migration affects mothers' wellbeing through three pathways: directly via the toll of spousal separation, and … reveal that we would observe large and significant associations between spousal migration and mothers' emotional wellbeing …