The Public Health perspective on Migratory Health – Displaced Populations in Global Disease Epidemics

The interest of migratory health displaced population and the impact on global disease epidemics has generated a lot of public health interest within the framework of movement in search for greener pastures. Many studies conducted to show a link between disease, travel and migration show some indications of historical connections that continue to have an impact on current medical programmes and daily activities [1]. The perspective of traditional medical services that concerns migrant health considers the recognition, identification and management of specific diseases, and health issues in displaced populations at the time and location of their destination [2]. In this paper we consider migrants population to be a group of people moving from one geographical location or environment to another for many reasons such as political instability, outbreak natural disaster, war, epidemic outbreak, for better life, search for fertile grazing field for livestock, asylum seeking and religious intolerance [2], The various sovereign states are making more effort to put in place measures that protects immigrants population. The process of restricting migratory population in isolation for some period before liberation for health control is still adopted in developed countries. This quarantine operation is intended to screen immigrants for potential diseases of public health concern and possible free transmission within the community. [3] The adoption of border control and restriction migrants into host countries has significantly reduced some those potential indicators that public health concerns and the constraints of increasing disease burden that in most cases are difficult to implement a developed health management system, due to inadequate health personnel and service providers.