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Revista Gerencia y Políticas de Salud

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VILAR PEYRI, Eugenia  and  EIBENSCHUTZ HARTMAN, Catalina. Migración y salud mental: un problema emergente de salud pública. Rev. Gerenc. Polit. Salud [online]. 2007, vol.6, n.13, pp.11-32. ISSN 1657-7027.

The migration of large contingents of inhabitants from the South to industrialized countries has dramatically increased over the last decade as a result of the socioeconomic polarization between countries and the extreme impoverishment within southern hemisphere countries – both derived from the neoliberal policies of globalization. However, there are few studies about the impact of these social phenomena on the mental health of workers who migrate and their families who stay in their places of origin. The guiding question of this study was: From which aspects of mental health have these groups of migrants been studied in Mexico as an expelling country and in Spain as a receiving country? The methodology was based on data from secondary sources, articles and national sociodemographic and mental health statistics, which were reinterpreted in the light of social sciences, social medicine and collective health. The conclusions stem from the emergency character of the public health issue addressed here, which ought to be studied in greater depth from the perspective of social determinants and equity.

Keywords : Migration; Mental Health; Violence; International Migration; Public Health; Ulysses Syndrome.

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