Forced migration has yet to be sufficiently addressed from the perspective of health policy and systems research, resulting in limited knowledge on system‐level interventions and policies to improve the health of forced migrants. The contributions within this edited volume seek to rectify this gap in the literature by compiling the existing knowledge on health systems and health policy responses to forced migration with a focus on asylum seekers, refugees, and internally displaced people. It also brings together the work of research communities from the fields of political science, epidemiology, health sciences, economics, psychology, and sociology to push the knowledge frontier of health research in the area of forced migration towards health policy and systems-level interventions, while also framing potential routes for further research in this area.
Among the analyses within the chapters:
- The political economy of health and forced migration in Europe
- Innovative humanitarian health financing for refugees
- Understanding the resilience of health systems
- Health security in the context of forced migration
- Discrimination as a health systems response to forced migration
Health Policy and Systems Responses to Forced Migration offers unique and interdisciplinary theoretical, empirical, and literature-based perspectives that apply a health policy and systems approach to health and healthcare challenges among forced migrants. It will find an engaged audience among policy makers and analysts, international organizations, scholars in academia, think tanks, and students in undergraduate programs or at the graduate level, for policy, practice, and educational purposes.
Kayvan Bozorgmehr, MD, MSc, is full professor and head of the Department of Population Medicine and Health Services Research at Bielefeld University School of Public Health in Germany. Dr. Bozorgmehr also is research group leader of "Social Determinants, Equity & Migration" in the Department of General Practice and Health Services Research at Heidelberg University Hospital in Germany.
Bayard Roberts, PhD, MPH, is professor in Health Systems and Policy with the Faculty of Public Health and Policy at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine in London, United Kingdom. Dr. Roberts also is head of the Department for Health Services Research and Policy as well as co-director for the Centre for Global Chronic Conditions. He has been co-editor-in-chief of the BMC journal Conflict and Health since 2012, and an honorary member of the Faculty of Public Health in the United Kingdom since 2015.
Oliver Razum, MD, MSc, is full professor and dean as well as head of the Department of Epidemiology and International Public Health at Bielefeld University School of Public Health in Germany.
Louise Biddle, MSc, is study coordinator for the research project RESPOND in the Department of General Practice and Health Services Research at University Hospital Heidelberg in Germany. Ms. Biddle also is a PhD candidate at Heidelberg University.
