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The European Journal of Public Health 2006 16(4):345; doi:10.1093/eurpub/ckl116
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© The Author 2006. Published by Oxford University Press on behalf of the European Public Health Association. All rights reserved.

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Migrant health: new challenges for European public health research

Johan P. Mackenbach, Editor-in-chief

This issue of the European Journal of Public health contains a number of important contributions on socioeconomic inequalities in health. These clearly illustrate the maturity of this research field, which does not only continue to produce large numbers of empirical analyses, in which the complex webs of causation linking low socioeconomic status to ill-health are gradually disentangled, but also produces more and more policy-oriented papers. Both the British and the Dutch experience with tackling health inequalities are represented in this issue, and show the commitment of policy-makers and researchers in these two countries to developing an empirical evidence-base for policies and interventions to reduce socioeconomic inequalities in health.

The field of migrant health, represented in this issue by 4 papers on the health experience of immigrants and refugees residing in 3 European countries, is developing rapidly as well. This is an urgent priority, because migrants tend to have different health profiles and different health-related behaviour patterns as compared to native European populations. Disentangling the causes of these differences and finding entry-points for policies and interventions is likely to be an even more demanding enterprise than it was (and still is) for socioeconomic inequalities in health, because of the great variation between different groups of immigrants and the huge challenges of data collection. Exchanging research experiences and findings is important for increasing learning speed, and the European Journal of Public Health therefore hopes to continue providing a scientific forum on migrant health.


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