{"id":4531,"date":"2020-02-20T12:29:44","date_gmt":"2020-02-20T20:29:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/?p=4531"},"modified":"2021-02-22T12:30:39","modified_gmt":"2021-02-22T20:30:39","slug":"the-neglected-health-of-international-migrant-workers-in-the-covid-19-epidemic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/2020\/02\/20\/the-neglected-health-of-international-migrant-workers-in-the-covid-19-epidemic\/","title":{"rendered":"The Neglected Health of International Migrant Workers in the COVID-19 epidemic"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Liem et al. describe an often neglected group of individuals during outbreaks: international migrant workers (IMW). There are currently about 150 million IMW worldwide, of which 95% reside in areas with confirmed COVID-19. The authors highlight barriers IMW encounter in accessing health services during outbreaks and call for IMW health needs to be made an urgent public health priority.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Liem et al. (Feb 18, 2020) The Neglected Health of International Migrant Workers in the COVID-19 epidemic. The Lancet Psychiatry. <\/span><\/i><a href=\"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1016\/S2215-0366(20)30076-6\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1016\/S2215-0366(20)30076-6<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Liem et al. describe an often neglected group of individuals during outbreaks: international migrant workers (IMW). There are currently about 150 million IMW worldwide, of which 95% reside in areas with confirmed COVID-19. The authors highlight barriers IMW encounter in accessing health services during outbreaks and call for IMW health needs to be made an&#8230;<\/p>\n<div><a class=\"more\" href=\"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/2020\/02\/20\/the-neglected-health-of-international-migrant-workers-in-the-covid-19-epidemic\/\">Read more<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"topic":[16],"class_list":["post-4531","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-article-summary","topic-public-health-policy-and-practice"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4531","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4531"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4531\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4532,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4531\/revisions\/4532"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4531"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4531"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4531"},{"taxonomy":"topic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/topic?post=4531"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}