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Meeting the Health Needs of Migrant Workers Affected by the Tsunami 英文参考文献.doc

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Meeting the Health Needs of Migrant Workers Affected by the Tsunami 英文参考文献

Open access, freely available online Health in Action Meeting the Health Needs of Migrant Workers Affected by the Tsunami Burmese migrant workers in Thailand are a vulnerable group David Wilson comparable to those of Thai citizens to Thailand’s low-cost health-care system. Undocumented migrants cannot legally access health care. However MSF’s observation is that sick Burmese, if they can speak Thai or are accompanied by a translator, do receive appropriate health F ollowing last December’s tsunami, Thailand reported 10,385 deaths and missing persons among Thais and foreign tourists, 80% of them in Phang Nga province (Figure 1). These reported tsunami deaths do not include Burmese migrant workers, which one local organisation estimates as being as many as 1,000 individuals [1]. Medical relief to Thai nationals and Western victims was well organised [2], but Burmese migrants could not always bene?t. This article brie?y highlights how the tsunami affected this vulnerable group, exacerbating pre-existing dif?culties in access to health care, and how Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) is responding. care, whether registered or unregistered. Unregistered patients without money may be treated free for common complaints. Hospitals also subsidise more specialised treatment but approach the employer for a further contribution. In practice, Burmese migrants rarely access even basic preventative health services such as vaccination. Very few married women we have met use any form of contraception, even if they do not want Migrant Workers in Thailand Prior to the tsunami, 30,572 registered migrants, 98.6% of them Burmese, worked in ?sheries, coastline construction, agriculture, and tourism in Phang Nga province [3]. Nongovernmental organisations estimate there are, in addition, an equal number of illegal migrants, who are in effect undocumented refugees. Migrant workers are vulnerable to exploitation, migration being largely unregulated and partially criminalized [4]. DOI: 10.1