The lucky ones are offered well-kept trailers and houses that could serve as a model for migrants everywhere.
This is primarily due to their adoption of the private health insurance model for migrants, which is worsened by absence of strong regulation especially towards employers of migrant workers.
There may also be value in establishing midwifery continuity of care models for migrant and refugee women to build their confidence with health services.
The Ministries of Health of Malaysia and Singapore may therefore consider including migrants in their government-run UHC systems for their citizens, or developing a separate yet still government-run scheme such as what Thailand has done or implementing tight regulation should they prefer retaining their mandatory private health insurance models for migrants.
Fitting the local population and migrant workers separately yielded the same included variables for the local population, but the preferred model for the migrant population was the null model, indicating a fairly homogeneous composition of this subpopulation.
Despite the millions spent by the Dominican government on public relations and lobbying firms, the facts cannot be spun to make the country look as if it's a successful model for documenting migrants and promoting human rights, as José Tomás Pérez, Dominican Ambassador to the United States, claimed in a recent article.
We calculated each study's effect size as an odds ratio (OR) using the Mantel-Haenszel model (event/total for migrants and receiving-country women respectively) [ 20].
We used two logistic regression models: one for migrants' indecision and the other for migrants' desired length of stay.
To estimate the effect of lengths of residence on mortality from viral hepatitis, stomach and liver cancer, regression analyses was performed using Poisson regression models for each migrant cohort and cause separately.
In conclusion, our study shows that providing antiretroviral therapy to migrant workers is feasible, and highlights the need for adapted models of care for migrant populations to ensure continuity of antiretroviral therapy.
