Where economics and epidemics collide: migrant workers and emerging infections

Lancet. 2016 Oct 1;388(10052):1374-1376. doi: 10.1016/S0140-6736(16)31645-2. Epub 2016 Sep 14.

Authors

Clarence C Tam¹, Mishal S Khan², Helena Legido-Quigley²

Affiliations

¹ Saw Swee Hock School of Public Health, National University of Singapore, Tahir Foundation Building, 12 Science Drive 2, Singapore 117549, Singapore; London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine, London, UK. Electronic address: clarence_tam@nuhs.edu.sg.
² Saw Swee Hock School of Public Health, National University of Singapore, Tahir Foundation Building, 12 Science Drive 2, Singapore 117549, Singapore; London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine, London, UK.

PMID: 27639953
DOI: 10.1016/S0140-6736(16)31645-2

No abstract available

Publication types

Letter

MeSH terms

Communicable Diseases, Emerging* / economics
Communicable Diseases, Emerging* / epidemiology
Communicable Diseases, Emerging* / prevention & control
Construction Industry* / organization & administration
Construction Industry* / standards
Construction Industry* / trends
Disease Transmission, Infectious / prevention & control*
Economics
Epidemics
Global Health*
Health Services Accessibility* / organization & administration
Health Services Accessibility* / standards
Humans
Public Health*
Punishment
Transients and Migrants* / statistics & numerical data
Workforce
World Health Organization
Yellow Fever* / economics
Yellow Fever* / epidemiology
Yellow Fever* / prevention & control
Yellow Fever* / transmission
Zika Virus Infection* / economics
Zika Virus Infection* / epidemiology
Zika Virus Infection* / prevention & control
Zika Virus Infection* / transmission